It's performed to correct single ventricle birth defect. The normal heart has fours chamber - two upper atria and two lower ventricles. With single ventricle there is either a comlpete absence of a second ventricle or it is underdeveloped. Cauterization creates a second ventricle or enlarges a poorly developed one. Source(s): I'm a nurse.
Trivet definition, a small metal plate with short legs, especially one put under a hot platter or dish to protect a table. See more.
A rivet is a permanent mechanical fastener. Before being installed a rivet consists of a smooth cylindrical shaft with a head on one end. The end opposite the head is called the buck-tail. On installation the rivet is placed in a punched or drilled hole, and the tail is upset, or bucked (i.e., deformed), so that it expands to about 1.5 times the original shaft diameter, holding the rivet in place.