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Right ventricle

noun
1.
The chamber on the right side of the heart that receives venous blood from the right atrium and pumps it into the pulmonary trunk.





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... propulsion of blood, he takes up in Chapters VI and VII the question of the conveyance of the blood from the right side of the heart to the left. Galen had already insisted that some blood passed from the right ventricle to the lungs—enough for their nutrition; but Harvey points out, with Colombo, that from the arrangement of the valves there could be no other view than that with each impulse of the heart blood passes from the right ventricle to the lungs and so to ...
— The Evolution of Modern Medicine • William Osler


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