What's the difference between heart and interventricular?
Heart
Definition:
(n.) A hollow, muscular organ, which, by contracting rhythmically, keeps up the circulation of the blood.
(n.) The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage, and the like; rarely, the seat of the understanding or will; -- usually in a good sense, when no epithet is expressed; the better or lovelier part of our nature; the spring of all our actions and purposes; the seat of moral life and character; the moral affections and character itself; the individual disposition and character; as, a good, tender, loving, bad, hard, or selfish heart.
(n.) The nearest the middle or center; the part most hidden and within; the inmost or most essential part of any body or system; the source of life and motion in any organization; the chief or vital portion; the center of activity, or of energetic or efficient action; as, the heart of a country, of a tree, etc.
(n.) Courage; courageous purpose; spirit.
(n.) Vigorous and efficient activity; power of fertile production; condition of the soil, whether good or bad.
(n.) That which resembles a heart in shape; especially, a roundish or oval figure or object having an obtuse point at one end, and at the other a corresponding indentation, -- used as a symbol or representative of the heart.
(n.) One of a series of playing cards, distinguished by the figure or figures of a heart; as, hearts are trumps.
(n.) Vital part; secret meaning; real intention.
(n.) A term of affectionate or kindly and familiar address.
(v. t.) To give heart to; to hearten; to encourage; to inspirit.
(v. i.) To form a compact center or heart; as, a hearting cabbage.
Example Sentences:
(1) The extents of phospholipid hydrolysis were relatively low in brain homogenates, synaptic plasma membranes and heart ventricular muscle.
(2) A 2.5-month-old child with cyanotic heart disease who required long-term PGE1 infusions; developed widespread periosteal reactions during the course of therapy.
(3) It was found that the skeletal muscle enzyme of the chick embryo is independent of the presence of creatine and consequently is another constitutive enzyme like the creatine kinase of the early embryonic chick heart.
(4) This may have significant consequences for people’s health.” However, Prof Peter Weissberg, medical director of the British Heart Foundation, which funded the work, said medical journals could no longer be relied on to be unbiased.
(5) Spectral analysis of spontaneous heart rate fluctuations, a powerful noninvasive tool for quantifying autonomic nervous system activity, was assessed in Xenopus Laevis, intact or spinalized, at different temperatures and by use of pharmacological tools.
(6) Among the pathological or abnormal ECGs (25.6%) prevailed the vegetative-functional heart diseases with 92%.
(7) Propranolol resulted in a significantly lower mean hourly, mean 24 h and minimum heart rate.
(8) Heart rate (HR), pulmonary ventilation (V), oxygen consumption (VO2), carbon dioxide production (VCO2), and respiratory quotient (RQ) were measured.
(9) Coronary arteritis has to be considered as a possible etiology of ischemic symptoms also in subjects who appear affected by typical atherosclerotic ischemic heart disease.
(10) A full-length cDNA encoding porcine heart aconitase was derived from lambda gt10 recombinant clones and by amplification of the 5' end of the mRNA.
(11) report the complications registered, in particular: lead's displacing 6.2%, run away 0.7%, marked hyperthermya 0.0%, haemorrage 0.4%, wound dehiscence 0.3%, asectic necrosis by decubitus 5%, septic necrosis 0.3%, perforation of the heart 0.2%, pulmonary embolism 0.1%.
(12) Western blot analysis of these mitochondria using an antibody against carnitine palmitoyltransferase II purified from beef heart demonstrates a 68-kDa protein, which under ischemic conditions apparently is decreased by 2 kDa.
(13) The strongest predictor of non-sudden cardiac death was the New York Heart Association functional class.
(14) Road traffic accidents (RTAs) comprised 40% and ischaemic heart disease (IHD) 13% of the total.
(15) At the heart of the payday loan profit bonanza is the "continuous payment authority" (CPA) agreement, which allows lenders to access customer bank accounts to retrieve funds.
(16) The role of O2 free radicals in the reduction of sarcolemmal Na+-K+-ATPase, which occurs during reperfusion of ischemic heart, was examined in isolated guinea pig heart using exogenous scavengers of O2 radicals and an inhibitor of xanthine oxidase.
(17) Complete heart block was produced in 20 of 20 dogs.
(18) low molecular weight dextran in the course of right heart catheterization.
(19) Myocardial ischaemia was induced in perfused rabbit hearts by ligating the left main coronary artery.
(20) In the stage 24 chick embryo, a paced increase in heart rate reduces stroke volume, presumably by rate-dependent decrease in passive filling.
Interventricular
Definition:
(a.) Between the ventricles; as, the interventricular partition of the heart.
Example Sentences:
(1) This paper discusses the typical echocardiographic patterns of a variety of important conditions concerning the mitral valve, the left ventricle, the interatrial and interventricular septum as well as the influence of respiration on the performance of echocardiograms.
(2) Right ventricular volumes were determined in 12 patients with different levels of right and left ventricular function by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) using an ECG gated multisection technique in planes perpendicular to the diastolic position of the interventricular septum.
(3) Sepsis-induced pulmonary artery hypertension (SIPAH) causes an increase in right ventricular (RV) afterload, dilatation of the RV, leftward shift of the interventricular septum (IVS), and therefore decreases left ventricular compliance (LVC).
(4) Cardiac disorders being usually concomitant with this syndrome (interventricular leak, pulmonary arterial wedge stenosis etc.)
(5) Experiments were performed in vitro in the isolated perfused interventricular septum, and preischaemic values were compared with those obtained in right ventricular papillary muscles from the same hearts.
(6) In the first case, characterized by dextrocardia, the interventricular septum was intact, while in the second case with levocardia, a high ventricular septal defect was associated with pulmonary atresia.
(7) However, certain other echocardiographic abnormalities of left ventricular posterior wall motion and interventricular septal motion and a high E-Fo slope were suggestive of constriction.
(8) Although the most common pattern is for the right coronary artery to bifurcate at the crux giving the posterior descending (posterior interventricular) artery, a branch may arise before the crux, either as an aberrant acute marginal artery or as an early posterior descending artery, crossing the diaphragmatic surface of the right ventricle.
(9) The atrial complex was a common chamber with an attempt at division into two parts by a circular ridge of tissue; the ventricular complex was formed by three chambers which were all communicating between each other in the superior margin of their muscular interventricular septum.
(10) Finally, fibrosis may paradoxically reduce passive stiffness if it leads to a thinning of the interventricular septum.
(11) In the remainder a wide spectrum of abnormalities was found such as prolapse of the mitral valve (in 13.6%), bicuspid aortal valve with a medium regurgitation (4.5%), hypoplasia of the coronary cusp of the aortal valve (4.5%), dilatation of the ascending aorta with a residual significant stenosis at the site after operation of coarctation of the thoracic aorta (4.5%), subaortal defect of the interventricular septum (4.5%) and slight left ventricular hypertrophy in patients with arterial hypertension (9.1%).
(12) For each of these types we suggested the most likely location of the pre-excited region around the A-V rings (types 1 to 5) or in the interventricular septum (type 6).
(13) The membranous portion of the interventricular septum was thickened, and the aortic valve was thickened and had imperfect coaptation.
(14) Coronary angiography demonstrated isolated sub-total occlusion of the anterior interventricular branch in the upper third of the septum without other abnormalities.
(15) Prospective studies have documented changes in interventricular septa of babies exposed to these drugs.
(16) Although, both the mexiletine-quinidine combination and quinidine monotherapy prolonged refractoriness to a similar extent, the mexiletine-quinidine combination produced greater antiarrhythmic efficacy and prolonged interventricular conduction within the periinfarct zone to an extent greater than did quinidine alone.
(17) The histopathological study of this late one showed localized hemorrhage of the papillary muscles and interventricular septum.
(18) Coronary arteriography showed stenosis of the anterior interventricular artery and occlusion of the first diagonal artery; the other coronary vessels were normal.
(19) Patients with sickle cell anemia had a significantly greater mean left ventricular systolic dimension index, left ventricular diastolic dimension index, left ventricular mass, stroke volume index, interventricular septal width, aortic root index and left atrial index.
(20) Heart weights, including mean relative weights of the right and combined left ventricles and interventricular septa, were significantly greater in turkeys that died with PHS than in controls.