stenotic

IPA: stɛnʌtɪk

Examples of "stenotic" in Sentences

Stenotic nares means the nostrils are pinched or narrow.
Stenotic nares is part of the brachycephalic syndrome of short nosed dogs.
When they do, your uterus can become stenotic, or “too tight” to function.
Blue areas represent the diastolic pressure gradient due to the stenotic valve.
This causes it to become rigid and narrow, a condition known as a “stenotic cervix.”
Just as angioplasty can open a stenotic artery, so valvuloplasty can be used to widen a stiff valve.
I saw three yesterday who had had the off-bypass surgery and their vessels were stenotic or they'd narrowed down.
Peggy McCann, RDCS: In patients with a big VSD, with serious overriding of the aorta, and seriously stenotic pulmonary valve.
I found the following sentence helpful in trying to understand what may be the relevant pathophysiology: "Unstable plaques that lead to myocardial infarction are not necessarily severely stenotic and severely stenotic plaques are not necessarily unstable ."
While the severely stenotic plaques may be a marker for the unstable variety being present elsewhere in the coronary circulation it is the latter that typically causes the myocardial infarction or acute coronary syndrome so that dilating the former may relieve angina symptoms but is not likely to prevent infarcts.