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Left Ventricle

In brief
• Ventriculus sinister = left ventricle
• The most important chamber of the heart. It pumps oxygen-rich blood through the body.
• To do this, it must produce the required systemic blood pressure and therefore has the
thickest and most muscular wall of all chambers.
• Its position is left and lateral in the heart. It rests caudally on the diaphragm.

By O.P.Gobée, R. Slagter, dept. Anatomy & Embryology, LUMC, Netherlands.

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How do I recognize it?
Transversal 1275
• The thick muscular wall is
distinctive and easily recognizable.

By O.P.Gobée, R. Slagter, dept. Anatomy & Embryology, LUMC, Netherlands.

License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike - CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 International.