Sentences with phrase «called ventricles»

Dogs have four - chambered hearts just like people; the upper left and right chambers are called the atria and the lower two are called the ventricles.

The normal larynx has two small pockets called ventricles or saccules.

Just like the lower chambers of the heart, they are called ventricles.

The upper chambers are called atria (one chamber is called an atrium) and the lower chambers are called ventricles.

The upper left and right chambers are called the atria (atrium) and the lower left and right chambers are called the ventricles.

The upper chambers are called atria (singular: atrium) and the lower chambers are called ventricles.

EVERTED LARYNGEAL SACCULES — The normal larynx has two small pockets called ventricles or saccules.

The two upper chambers are called the atrium (plural atria), and the lower chambers are called the ventricles.

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When I was 8 years old, it caused this disorder called hydrocephalus where the tumor is blocking the cerebral fluid in the brain and that automatically creates pressure within the ventricles and it starts affecting different parts of the brain, and in my case it damaged my optic nerve.

For preterm babies, the largest contributor to brain injuries is from bleeding into and around the ventricles of the brain, a condition called periventricular haemorrhage.

Take, for example, a condition called cardiac hypertrophy, in which the left ventricle, one of the two major chambers of the heart, increases in size and thickness, usually in concert with weight gain and hypertension.

Though much of the concern in the media regarding the toxic effects of Zika virus has focused on brain findings of microcephaly, the researchers noted that there are a variety of brain abnormalities that can be found in fetuses exposed to the virus, including gray and white matter volume loss, brainstem abnormalities, calcifications, and a condition called ventriculomegaly, where the ventricles, or fluid filled spaces in the brain, are enlarged.

In rodents and humans, the developing cortex contains a layer of neural stem cells called radial glial cells that resides near the fluid - filled ventricles and produces cells that are precursors to neurons.

When the one of these lincRNA, called megamind, is reduced in zebrafish, the embryos have abnormally shaped heads and enlarged brain ventricles, as indicated by the arrow.

Reduction of one of the lincRNAs, which they called cyrano, caused the zebrafish to have enlarged snouts, small heads and eyes, and short, curly tails, while the zebrafish lacking the lincRNA they called megamind had abnormally shaped heads and enlarged brain ventricles.

The valve between the left atrium and left ventricle is called the mitral valve.

When the ventricle contracts early without the usual signal from the atria it is called a premature ventricular contraction or PVC.

Right Heart Failure - When the right side or ventricle fails it is called congestive heart failure.

Just as the atria are separated from their corresponding ventricle by AV valves, so too are the ventricles divided from their corresponding arteries by valves known as semi-lunar valves, so - called as their leaflets look like half - moons: the left semi-lunar valve is known as the aortic valve as is separates the left ventricle from the aorta; the right semi-lunar valve is called the pulmonic valve as it separates the right ventricle from the pulmonary artery.

Affected cats may have underlying heart disease called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, in which the heart muscle thickens and the lower heart chambers (ventricles) decrease in size (see handout «Cardiomyopathy in Cats» for further information on this type of heart disease).

Worms can be retrieved from the right atrium, right ventricle and pulmonary arterial apex by using endoscopic basket, introduced through the jugular vein through a procedure called a jugular venotomy.