If you run water into the right ventricle from a tap (the left also works, but less spectacularly), you'll see that the ventricular valve tries to close against the incoming stream.

The ventricular valves, called the tricuspid in the right ventricle and the mitral in the left, can be seen through the clear water opening and closing like parachutes as the ventricle is rhythmically squeezed.

They caused ventricular arrhythmias, or irregular heartbeats, for several weeks after we transplanted them.

The left ventricular assistance device is a partial artificial heart used in patients dying of heart failure.

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