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.
Cuvette. (Science: apparatus) a transparent or translucent box-shaped container with precisely-measured dimensions for holding liquid samples to be put into a spectrophotometer. Please contribute to this project, if you have more information about this term feel free to edit this page. This page was last modified on 3 October 2005, at 21:16.This page has been accessed 3,850 times.