VALVULAR HEART DISEASE

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 I. (noun) 

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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 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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