Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining both to the auricles and to the ventricles of the heart: as, the auriculoventricular orifice. See cut under heart.—
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Med.) relating to or affecting the atria and ventricles of the heart.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. relating to or affecting the atria and ventricles of the heart
Examples
“The atria are separated from the ventricles by the coronary sulcus (auriculoventricular groove); this contains the trunks of the nutrient vessels of the heart, and is deficient in front, where it is crossed by the root of the pulmonary artery.”
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Eight-syllable English Words
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Some Medical Terms
A list of terms and procedures encountered in the medical literature, beginning with enterectomy.
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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