ventilation shaft
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ a shaft in a building; serves as an air passage for ventilation
ventilation
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ the bodily process of inhalation and exhalation; the process of taking in oxygen from inhaled air and releasing carbon dioxide by exhalation
ventilation
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ free and open discussion of (or debate on) some question of public interest; "such a proposal deserves thorough public discussion"
ventilator
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ a device (such as a fan) that introduces fresh air or expels foul air
ventilator
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ a device that facilitates breathing in cases of respiratory failure
ventilatory
— Tillægsord
– Engelsk
~ provided with ventilation or involving pulmonary ventilation
Ventner
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ United States geneticist who published the complete base sequences for all the genes of a free-living organism, the influenza bacterium; later led team that developed a first draft of the entire human genome (born in 1946)
ventolin
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ a bronchodilator (trade names Ventolin or Proventil) used for asthma and emphysema and other lung conditions; available in oral or inhalant forms; side effects are tachycardia and shakiness
Ventose
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ sixth month of the Revolutionary calendar (February and March); the windy month
ventral root
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ one of the two roots of a spinal nerve that passes ventrally from the spinal cord and that consists of motor fibers
ventral fin
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ either of a pair of fins attached to the pelvic girdle in fishes that help control the direction of movement; correspond to hind limbs of a land vertebrate
ventral placentation
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ with ovules borne on the wall along the ventral suture of a simple ovary
ventral horn
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ one of the two roots of a spinal nerve that passes ventrally from the spinal cord and that consists of motor fibers
ventral
— Tillægsord
– Engelsk
~ nearest to or facing toward the axis of an organ or organism; "the upper side of a leaf is known as the adaxial surface"
ventral
— Tillægsord
– Engelsk
~ toward or on or near the belly (front of a primate or lower surface of a lower animal); "the ventral aspect of the human body"; "the liver is somewhat ventral in position"; "ventral (or pelvic) fins correspond to the hind limbs of a quadruped"
ventrally
— Biord
– Engelsk
~ in a ventral location or direction
ventricle
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ one of four connected cavities in the brain; is continuous with the central canal of the spinal cord and contains cerebrospinal fluid
ventricle
— Navneord
– Engelsk
~ a chamber of the heart that receives blood from an atrium and pumps it to the arteries
ventricose
— Tillægsord
– Engelsk
~ having a swelling on one side; "the ventricose gullet of an insect"