mitral en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˈmaɪtɹəl/
Etymology
From mitre + -al.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Pertaining to a mitre; resembling a mitre.
The mitral valve was named for a fancied resemblance to a bishop's mitre.
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(not-comparable) Pertaining to the mitral valve.
Treatments for mitral insufficiency include antihypertensives and valvular surgery; today the latter is often minimally invasive and even totally endoscopic.
Deriveds
inframitral · submitral · mitral annulus · mitral valve · aortomitral · mitral regurg · mitral stenosis · transmitral · mitralic · mitral cell · mitral regurgitation · supramitral · mitral facies · perimitral · mitral prolapse
Translations (7)
de mitral (pertaining to the mitral valve) · es mitral (pertaining to the mitral valve) · fr mitral (pertaining to the mitral valve) · ro mitral (pertaining to the mitral valve) · pl mitralny (pertaining to the mitral valve) · hu mitrális (pertaining to the mitral valve) · it mitrale (pertaining to the mitral valve)