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mitral

 
Dictionary: mi·tral   ('trəl) pronunciation

adj.
  1. Relating to or resembling a miter worn by certain ecclesiastics.
  2. Relating to a mitral valve.

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('trəl)
adj.
  1. Relating to a mitral valve.
  2. Shaped like a bishop's miter. Used of a structure resembling the shape of a headband or turban.

Shaped like a miter; pertaining to the mitral valve.

  • m. area — that area of the thoracic wall through which sounds of the mitral valve can best be auscultated; generally the lower one-third of the mid- to anterior left thorax.
  • m. atresia–hypoplastic left heart syndrome — defects in the development of the mitral valve, left heart and aortic valve, which occur rarely in cats.
  • m. complex — includes the leaflets, annulus, chordae tendineae and papillary muscles of the mitral valve, left atrium and left ventricular muscle wall.
  • m. insufficiency — a functional incompetence resulting in regurgitation of blood from the left ventricle to the left atrium during systole or from the great vessels into the left atrium during diastole.
  • m. regurgitation — see mitral insufficiency (above).
  • m. valve — the left atrioventricular valve, the valve between the left atrium and the left ventricle of the heart; it is composed of two cusps, anterior and posterior. Called also the bicuspid valve.
  • m. valve prolapse (MVP) — a condition in which some portion of the mitral valve is pushed back too far during ventricular contraction. Often a complication of mitral endocardiosis.
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The adjective has one meaning:

Meaning #1: of or relating to or located in or near the mitral valve
  Pertains to noun: mitral valve (meaning #1)


 
 

 

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