EGAVE

mitral

About 3.17 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Pertaining to a mitre; resembling a mitre.
    The mitral valve was named for a fancied resemblance to a bishop's mitre.
  2. adjective Pertaining to the mitral valve.
    Treatments for mitral insufficiency include antihypertensives and valvular surgery; today the latter is often minimally invasive and even totally endoscopic.

Similar words

bicuspid bicuspidal atrioventricular valvular cardiovalvular cardiac cuspid annular leaflet papillary

Often followed by

valve stenosis regurgitation insufficiency and valves leaflet cells disease orifice

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