ventricular

adj

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

1. 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.”