mitral

IPA: mˈaɪtrʌɫ

adjective

  • Pertaining to a mitre; resembling a mitre.
  • (anatomy, medicine) Pertaining to the mitral valve.
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Examples of "mitral" in Sentences

  • Twenty percent of the population has a condition called mitral valve prolapse.
  • Circulatory studies in mitral stenosis before and after commissurotomy, Ann. Surg.,
  • Many people with the valve problem, known as mitral regurgitation, currently don't get repairs because they can't withstand surgery.
  • The device helps one of the valves in the heart close properly, so that blood passing through this so-called mitral valve is pumped forward.
  • In her 40s, Walaska was diagnosed with a common heart condition called mitral valve prolapse, which often requires no treatment except routine examinations.
  • According to a 2001 report in the Medical Journal of Australia, a woman with a heart condition called mitral valve prolapse died after ingesting most of a 55 milliliter guarana and ginseng energy drink.
  • She had been diagnosed with a mostly benign condition called mitral valve prolapse -- a problem I believe is over diagnosed and over treated -- and "needed" antibiotics every time she went to the dentist.

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