Opitz G/BBB Family Connection
(Canada)

43 Swallow Street, Kitimat, British Columbia V8C 1K6

Phone: 250-632-7026  Fax:250-639-9062 E-Mail

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Ventilator:  a machine used to take over breathing when a person cannot breathe on his or her own

Ventricle:  a small cavity or chamber; there are four ventricles in the brain that circulate cerebrospinal fluid through it, and two in the heart that pump blood throughout the body

Ventricular fibrillation:  rapid, irregular contractions of the heart

Ventricular septal defect:  a hole in the wall that separates the two lower chambers of the heart (called the ventricles)

Viral: a term describing something related to or caused by a virus

Vocal cords:  two strips of tissue in the voice box that have the ability to produce sound when air passing through them causes the tissues to vibrate

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