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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