Of or relating to a ventricle or ventriculus.
Used in a Sentence
ventricular
Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for ventricular.
Editorial note
An AED may be able to restart a heart in ventricular fibrillation or ventricular tachycardia (I suppose we can quibble over what 'restart' means).
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Quick take
Of or relating to a ventricle or ventriculus.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of ventricular gathered in one view.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for ventricular.
adjective
Of or relating to a ventricle or ventriculus.
Example sentences
An AED may be able to restart a heart in ventricular fibrillation or ventricular tachycardia (I suppose we can quibble over what 'restart' means).
A defibrillator gives a large shock to the heart to knock it out of a dangerous rhythm such as ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation.
The only point of defibrillation (automatic or not) is to stop ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation (electric rhythms that don't cause effective heart contractions), and kick-start a sinusal (normal) rhythm.
Most commonly, this is going to be attributed to a ventricular arrhythmia, likely due to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
We're talking about a heart that has been sent into either a pulse less ventricular tachycardia, or ventricular fibrillation, due to the timing of the electric shock (generally during the S-T interval).
My dad has worked on pacemakers, defibrillators, left ventricular assist pumps, all kinds of implantables.
The slightest movement can send a victim's heart muscle into wild spasms of ventricular fibrillation.
He has a left-ventricular assist device, which has one pump, but still has a heart that does part of the work.
And the surgery which he had may have been a VP shunt (ventricular-peritoneal) -- something to move fluid away from his brain?
It is a form of ventricular fibrillation (V-Fib), not mechanical damage to the heart muscle or surrounding organs, and not the result of heart disease.
The sort of semi-procrastination that occurs when you're still being productive (because you're still learning), but you realise that you've gone from studying waveforms to ventricular fibrillation.
It's very common for healthy people to have occasional 'premature ventricular contractions' where some random cell in the heart decides it's pissed off and wants to contract early.
Quote examples
I think by "restart", he meant the useful shorthand of "restore a useful rhythm, restart the heart as a pump instead of a tasty snack", and only in the case where the heart was in ventricular fibrillation or tachycardia.
Proper noun examples
Ventricular fibrillation is not a death sentence, but your claim made it out to be so, and needed to be corrected.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use ventricular in a sentence?
An AED may be able to restart a heart in ventricular fibrillation or ventricular tachycardia (I suppose we can quibble over what 'restart' means).
What does ventricular mean?
Of or relating to a ventricle or ventriculus.
What part of speech is ventricular?
ventricular is commonly used as adjective.