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Ventricular remodeling
Ventricular remodeling: pathological change in ventricular size, shape, and function after myocardial injury, driven by myocyte hypertrophy, apoptosis, and fibrosis; reversible in some patients as reverse remodeling or heart failure remission.
Ventricular septal defect
A ventricular septal defect (VSD) is a hole in the wall between the heart's two lower chambers, present at birth and among the most common congenital heart defects.
Ventricular system
Ventricular system: interconnected brain cavities (two lateral, third, fourth ventricles) that produce and circulate cerebrospinal fluid via the choroid plexus, foramina of Monro, Luschka, and Magendie; obstruction causes hydrocephalus.
Ventricular tachyarrhythmia
Ventricular tachyarrhythmia (ICD-11 BC71): abnormally fast ventricular rhythms including ventricular tachycardia (≥3 consecutive complexes, ≥100 bpm) and ventricular fibrillation; mechanisms include reentry in scarred hearts; managed by cardioversion, ablation, and ICDs.
Ventricular tachycardia
Ventricular tachycardia (VT) is a rapid heart rhythm, three or more beats at 120 bpm or faster, that starts in the ventricles and can cause cardiac arrest.
Ventricular tachycardia ablation
Ventricular tachycardia ablation is a catheter-based procedure that destroys heart tissue generating abnormal electrical circuits, reducing recurrent VT and ICD shocks in randomized trials against drugs.
Ventriculoperitoneal shunt placement
Ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunt placement is a neurosurgical procedure implanting a catheter system that drains cerebrospinal fluid from a brain ventricle into the peritoneal cavity to treat hydrocephalus.
Ventriculoperitoneal shunt surgery
Ventriculoperitoneal (VP) shunt surgery is a neurosurgical procedure implanting a catheter system that drains excess cerebrospinal fluid from the brain's ventricles into the abdominal cavity, treating hydrocephalus.
Ventriculostomy
Ventriculostomy is a neurosurgical procedure creating an opening into a cerebral ventricle, either to drain cerebrospinal fluid through an external catheter or, endoscopically, to bypass obstruction in hydrocephalus.
Ventriloquism
Ventriloquism, from Latin venter and loqui (belly-speaking), is the art of making one's voice appear to come from a dummy or other source; its perceptual basis is the ventriloquism effect, visual capture of sound location, studied since Eurykles of Athens to Edgar Bergen and modern labs.
Ventris (lunar crater)
Ventris is a 100.74-km-wide impact crater on the Moon's far side at 4.77°S, 157.97°E, named in 1970 after Michael Ventris, the British decipherer of Linear B, and photographed by Apollo 11.
Vents
Vents is a long French poem by Saint-John Perse, pen name of Alexis Léger, written in Maine in 1945 and published by Gallimard in 1946.
Ventsislav Valev
Ventsislav K. Valev is a physicist at the University of Bath who first demonstrated chiroptical harmonic scattering in 2019, an effect predicted in 1979, and received the 2023 Thomas Young Medal.
Ventura County, California
Ventura County is a Southern California coastal county between Santa Barbara and Los Angeles counties. Its seat is Ventura; strawberries lead a $2.3 billion agriculture industry.
Ventura García Calderón
Ventura García Calderón (1886–1959) was a Peruvian novelist, short-story writer, and diplomat who spent most of his life in Paris; his most emblematic work is La venganza del cóndor (1924).
Ventura Highway
Ventura Highway is a 1972 folk rock song by Dewey Bunnell of America, from the album Homecoming; it reached number 8, was inspired by a 1963 Ventura highway sign, and was later sampled by Janet Jackson.
Ventura López
Ventura López, in full Ventura Fernández López (1866–1944), was a Spanish priest, journalist, archaeologist, and cervantist who settled in Toledo, where his eccentricity made him famous as el Cura Loco.
Ventura, California
Ventura (San Buenaventura), California: coastal county seat of 109,000 founded around Mission San Buenaventura in 1782, incorporated 1866, known for its pier, surf point, harbor, and Channel Islands gateway.
Venture (Overwatch)
Venture is a Damage hero in Overwatch 2, debuting April 16, 2024 in Season 10 after a March 28–31 trial. The non-binary Wayfinder Society archeologist uses a Smart Excavator with Burrow, Drill Dash, and Tectonic Shock.
Venture capital
Venture capital, also known as startup capital, is private financing in which pooled funds from institutional and wealthy investors buy minority equity stakes in early-stage, high-growth private companies.
Venture Global
Venture Global, Inc. is an American liquefied natural gas producer and exporter headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, whose Calcasieu Pass plant began producing LNG in 2022.
VentureFriends
VentureFriends is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Athens, Greece, founded in 2016 by Apostolos Apostolakis and George Dimopoulos, investing at pre-seed and seed across Europe.
VentureSoul Partners
VentureSoul Partners is a Mumbai-based venture debt firm founded in 2024 by three ex-HSBC bankers, lending to revenue-generating Indian technology startups through a SEBI-registered fund.
Venturi effect
The Venturi effect, or Venturi principle, is the drop in a fluid's static pressure as it flows through a constricted section of pipe, speeding up as it does so.
Venturi mask
Venturi mask, also called air-entrainment or HAFOE mask: an oxygen facemask designed by E. J. Moran Campbell in 1960, using the Venturi effect to entrain room air and deliver a fixed FiO2, used especially for COPD.
Venturi meter
A Venturi meter is a device for measuring fluid flow rate in a pipe from the pressure drop at a constricted throat, devised by Clemens Herschel in 1887 and named for Giovanni Battista Venturi.
Venturia inaequalis
Venturia inaequalis, the ascomycete fungus causing apple scab (black spot) on apple and crabapple; overwinters in leaf litter as pseudothecia, releases spring ascospores, and is managed by resistant cultivars, sanitation, and rotated fungicides.
Ventus Therapeutics
Ventus Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company in Waltham, Massachusetts and Montreal, launched by Versant Ventures in 2020, developing oral small-molecule medicines against innate-immune targets like NLRP3 and cGAS.
Venu Srinivasan
Venu Srinivasan is an Indian industrialist and third-generation leader of the TVS Group who built TVS Motor into the world's third-largest two-wheeler maker, receiving the Padma Bhushan in 2020.
Venu Thottempudi
Venu Thottempudi (వేణు తొట్టెంపూడి), born 1976, is a Telugu film actor whose hits include Swayamvaram, Chirunavvutho, and Hanuman Junction; he won a Nandi Special Jury Award for his debut and returned in Ramarao on Duty (2022).