VALVULAR HEART DISEASE
Dictionary entry overview: What does valvular heart disease mean? • VALVULAR HEART DISEASE (noun)
The noun VALVULAR HEART DISEASE has 1 sense:
1. heart disease caused by stenosis of the cardiac valves and obstructed blood flow or caused by degeneration and blood regurgitation
Familiarity information: VALVULAR HEART DISEASE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• VALVULAR HEART DISEASE (noun)
Meaning:
Heart disease caused by stenosis of the cardiac valves and obstructed blood flow or caused by degeneration and blood regurgitation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("valvular heart disease" is a kind of...):
cardiopathy; heart condition; heart disease (a disease of the heart)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "valvular heart disease"):
aortic stenosis (abnormal narrowing of the aortic valve)
mitral valve prolapse (cardiopathy resulting from the mitral valve not regulating the flow of blood between the left atrium and left ventricle of the heart)
mitral stenosis; mitral valve stenosis (obstruction or narrowing of the mitral valve (as by scarring from rheumatic fever))
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