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Adjective

ventricular (not comparable)

• Of or relating to a ventricle or ventriculus.
  • ✤ 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.¹
  • ✤ 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.²

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England): 🔊
• Rhymes: -ɪkjʊlə(ɹ)

Printed 2026-06-28.

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Footnotes

1. 2015, Jaime Samour, Avian Medicine, page 297: ↩

2. 2024 March 15, “Heart Rate”, in Cleveland Health ‎${}^{[1]}$, archived from the original on 7 August 2024: ↩

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