aortic insufficiency

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noun Pathology.

abnormal closure of the aortic valve resulting in regurgitation of blood to the left ventricle.

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Also called aortic incompetence.

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The hard work began after Walters had her aortic valve replaced with one from a cow.
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Doctors there performed a 20-hour surgery in an attempt to repair his aortic dissection.
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Even though he underwent an aortic valve replacement in 2008, he insists he has no intention of retiring anytime soon.
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An increase is also noted in the uric-acid diathesis and in diseases accompanied by respiratory insufficiency.
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The poverty of earlier days was the outcome of the insufficiency of human labor to meet the primal needs of human kind.
The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice|Stephen Leacock
They too hastily confessed the insufficiency of arms and fortifications.
The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire|Edward Gibbon
I believe that a few of the prisoners succumbed to disease and died because they had an insufficiency of nourishing food.
Reminiscences of a Rebel|Wayland Fuller Dunaway
It was this insufficiency of rations which wrought the fatal dnouement of the glorious enterprise of Burke and Wills.
The Desert World|Arthur Mangin

aortic insufficiency

aortic regurgitation