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The heart includes 4 cavities: 2 auricles and 2 ventricles.
Ventricles are cavities of the heart capable of ejecting blood into the arteries. The contraction of the right ventricle induces the ejection of blood into the pulmonary artery (solely irrigating the lung), whereas the contraction of the left ventricle is responsible for the blood ejection into the aorta (irrigating the rest of the organism). A right ventricular insufficiency corresponds to the inability of the right ventricle to assure a blood output sufficient for the organism's needs and in particular the lung's. This illness is more and more frequent in the general population and its cause is often the aggravation of a left ventricular insufficiency. File last reviewed on dec 18, 2011 |
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