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intra-atrial en · ADJ

Etymology

From intra- + atrial.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Within an atrium, typically of the heart.
   • The hospital was the first in Broward and Palm Beach counties to acquire the Transesophogeal^([sic]) Echo Probe for evaluating prosthetic mitral and aortic valve for dysfunction, intra-atrial thrombi and aortic dissection. 1991 March 2, “North Ridge Heart Institute considered one of the finest”, in Sun-Sentinel, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.: News and Sun-Sentinel Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5B:
   • [I]t was only a few years ago that the first diagnosis was made of an intra-atrial septal defect and the first successful surgery to repair the defect was done even more recently. 1956 January 8, Merlynn Sally McAllister, “When doctors tried to save my life and my unborn baby … They froze me for 6 hours”, in Cleveland Plain Dealer, 115th year, number 8, Cleveland, Oh., →OCLC, “The American Weekly” section, page 6, column 1:
   • It took a pulmonary valvotomy and a patch closure of a ventricular septal defect, for starters, not to mention an intra-atrial baffle operation for transposition using extracorporeal circulation. 1982 December 7, Field News Service, “Medical insurance creates dilemma”, in The Vidette-Messenger, Valparaiso, Ind., →OCLC, page 20, column 3:

Forms

Deriveds

intra-atrial conduction time