Of or pertaining to a ventricle and a cistern, usually one of the cerebral ventricles and one of the subarachnoid cisterns (such as the fourth ventricle and the cisterna magna), regarding pathways of cerebrospinal fluid flow.
Origin
International scientific vocabulary, using a classical compound: ventriculo- + -cistern.
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