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Ventricle vs Ventriculomegaly - What's the difference?

ventricle | ventriculomegaly |

As nouns the difference between ventricle and ventriculomegaly

is that ventricle is any small cavity within a body; a hollow part or organ, especially while ventriculomegaly is dilation of the lateral ventricles of the brain.

ventricle

English

Noun

(wikipedia ventricle) (en noun)
  • (anatomy, zoology) Any small cavity within a body; a hollow part or organ, especially:
  • # (anatomy) One of two lower chambers of the heart.
  • # (anatomy) One of four cavities in the brain.
  • # (archaic, anatomy, zoology) The stomach.
  • #* 1662 , , Book II, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 72:
  • [On birds] "Where omitting the more general Properties, of having two Ventricles , and picking up stones to conveigh them into their second Ventricle, the Gizzern, (which provision and instinct is a supply for the want of teeth;) "
  • # (archaic) The womb.
  • See also

    * atrium

    ventriculomegaly

    English

    Noun

    (wikipedia ventriculomegaly)
  • (medicine) dilation of the lateral ventricles of the brain