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Kind of heart valve
Answer for the clue "Kind of heart valve ", 6 letters:
mitral
Alternative clues for the word mitral
Word definitions for mitral in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mitral \Mi"tral\, a. [Cf. F. mitral. See Miter .] Pertaining to a miter; resembling a miter; as, the mitral valve between the left auricle and left ventricle of the heart.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Pertaining to a miter; resembling a miter.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, "resembling a mitre," from French mitral , from Modern Latin mitralis , from Latin mitra (see mitre ). Mitral valve is attested from 1705.
Usage examples of mitral.
Most of the babies have a small or absent mitral and aortic valve and a rudimentary left ventricle, so they die as soon as their patent ductus closes.
Freeman, realizing that there was certainly no chance for him of finishing his patients unless he gave way to her persistence, wrote a brief note certifying that in his opinion Mrs Dunwoody, who was suffering from mitral stenosis, would benefit from accommodation which did not involve the climbing of stairs.
When the acute disease had run its course, the child had been left with a loud holosystolic heart murmur, indicating his mitral valve had been severely damaged.
He had an infected mitral valve from God knows what, crappy coronaries, and an ejection fraction less than twenty percent.
Who cared about mitral valves and ejection fractions when she had very sick babies to worry about?
How reassuring it was, after so many hands-off months of shrinking, to noodle around in bodies, palpating a belly, percussing a spleen, auscultating a heart, the sounds calling up the anatomy--that squeak a tight aortic valve, that train rumble a leaky mitral.
Were coming to the right atrium, and we should see the mitral valve.