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What is the difference between a bicuspid valve and a tricuspid valve?
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∙ 13y ago
from the name itself, the bicuspid valve contains two cusps or flaps and the tricuspid valve contains three cusps or flaps.
they both prevent the blood from flowing back into the atria........
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∙ 13y ago
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Where in the heart are the bicuspid and tricuspid valves located?
The bicuspid and tricuspid valves are located between the atria and the ventricles. The bicuspid or mitral valve is on the left, and the tricuspid is on the right.
What happens when the ventricular walls contracts?
The bicuspid valve opens and the tricuspid valve closes.
Why human heart does not has bicuspid valve instead of tricuspid valve?
The human heart has both Tricuspid and a Bicuspid Valve. The Bicuspid Valve is more commonly know as the Aortic Valve. All that bicuspid means is that there are only 2 leaflets in the valve instead of the normal three leaflets that would be found in the tricuspid valve or the mitral valve.
The right atrioventricular valve is known as the?
Another name for the right atrioventricular valve is the tricuspid valve. (3 -tri- on the right; 2 on the left/mitral valve)
Which is more complex tricuspid or mitral valve?
Tricuspid valve is more complex as compared to bicuspid valve .
What is the exact location of chordae tendinae?
Between papilary muscle and tricuspid valve Between papilary muscle and bicuspid valve
What are the types of frogs valve?
tricuspid valve,bicuspid valve and pulmonary valve
Bicuspid and tricuspid valves open in what direction?
The bicuspid (mitral) valve and tricuspid valve open in a direction that allows blood to flow from the atria to the ventricles.
What are the three heart valves?
bicuspid valve tricuspid valve semi lunar valve
When the ventricular walls contract the what?
The bicuspid valve opens and the tricuspid valve closes.
What are the names for the two different sets of heart valves?
Atrioventricular valves Bicuspid Valve Tricuspid valve Pulmonary valve Aortic valve these are all the valves which are part of the heart.
Atrioventricular valve in the left ventricle called the bicuspid valve?
The atrioventricular valve on the left side of the heart is the bicuspid or mitral valve. The AV valve on the right is the tricuspid.
