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OCR: LEFT VENTRICLE "HE LEFT VENTRICLE 18 one of the two lower chaml ibers of your heart. The ventricles have thicker walls and are much larger than the upper chambers, or atria. This because the muscular walls of the ventricles pump blood out of your heart. The wall of the left ventricle. however, 1s thicker than the right, because it has to work harder. pushes blood all around your body whereas the right ventricle only pumps blood to your lungs. When the left ventricle contracts. pumps blood into the aorta the largest of your arteries. wherea contract