Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ventricular

/vɛntɹˈɪkjulɚ/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.93 in modern English

Syllables: ven-tric-u-lar
IPA: /vɛntɹˈɪkjulɚ/

16

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Of or relating to a ventricle or ventriculus.

Example Sentences

"Commonly indicated for treatment of sour crop (Fig. 11-11, A), an ingluviotomy is done to retrieve crop calculi, ingluvioliths, or foreign bodies (which are not accessible per os) or to retrieve proventricular or ventricular foreign bodies (using micromagnets [glued in place within plastic tubes], lavage, or endoscopy) and for the placement of an ingluviotomy or proventriculotomy tube or the collection of crop wall biopsies."
"When your resting heart rate is over 100 bpm, providers call this tachycardia. This means you may have an issue with your heart’s conduction system that signals your heart to beat. Examples of this type of issue include atrial flutter and ventricular tachycardia."

Etymology

From New Latin *ventricularis, from ventriculus (“belly, stomach, ventricle”), diminutive of venter (“belly, stomach, womb”). Equivalent to ventricle + -ar; See ventricle.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: ventricle

Derived Forms

abventricular annuloventricular arterioventricular atrioventricular biventricular bulboventricular cardioventricular cerebroventricular circumventricular conoventricular endoventricular extraventricular

Phrases

left ventricular ejection time ventricular fibrillation ventricular septum ventricular tachycardia

Frequently Paired Words

biventricular triventricular ventricle ventriculus

Rhymes With

particular perpendicular curricular vehicular extracurricular testicular follicular articular lenticular funicular reticular vesicular

Questions

How do you pronounce ventricular?: The recorded pronunciation is /vɛntɹˈɪkjulɚ/.
What does ventricular mean?: Of or relating to a ventricle or ventriculus.
Where does ventricular come from?: From New Latin *ventricularis, from ventriculus (“belly, stomach, ventricle”), diminutive of venter (“belly, stomach, womb”). Equivalent to ventricle + -ar; See ventricle.

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