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‖ ventriculus|vɛnˈtrɪkjʊləs|
[L. (in senses 1 and 2), dim. of venter venter1.]
1. Anat. and Zool. = ventricle 3.
[1693tr. Blancard's Phys. Dict. (ed. 2), Ventriculus, the Stomach.] 1710J. Harris Lex. Techn. II. s.v., The Stomach or Ventriculus is placed immediately under the Midriff. 1771Encycl. Brit. I. 258/1 Ventriculus, or Stomach,..a great bag or reservoir, situated [etc.]. 1843Wilkinson tr. Swedenborg's Anim. Kingd. I. iv. 109 The stomach or ventriculus is a hollow membranous viscus. 1894Athenæum 21 April 514/3 The alimentary canal is more of the type of other Gamasidæ than of the Uropodinæ, the ventriculus being small and its cæca long.
b. The gizzard in birds and insects.
1891in Cent. Dict. 1896Newton Dict. Birds 916 [The] Stomach..consists of an interior portion, the Proventriculus,..and a posterior, the Ventriculus or Gizzard, which is muscular.
2. = ventricle 1.
1771Encycl. Brit. I. 278/2 The heart..is hollow within, and divided by a septum which runs between the edges into two cavities, called ventriculi.
3. The body-cavity of a sponge.
1877Huxley Anat. Inv. Anim. iii. 115 In the simplest Calcispongiæ..the wall of the ventriculus is thin. Ibid. vii. 409 The anterior end of the ventriculus. |
