aortic insufficiency

American  

noun

Pathology.

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

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Example Sentences

It is characteristic of all cases of aortic insufficiency that the diastolic pressure is low, even as low as 30 mm.

From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Warfield, Louis Marshall

Low diastolic pressure is frequently pathognomonic of aortic insufficiency.

From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Warfield, Louis Marshall

For a long time this large muscular section of the heart can overcome all difficulties of the aortic insufficiency.

From Disturbances of the Heart by Osborne, Oliver T. (Oliver Thomas)

Sudden death from heart failure may occur with this lesion more frequently than with mitral insufficiency but less frequently than with aortic insufficiency.

From Disturbances of the Heart by Osborne, Oliver T. (Oliver Thomas)

It has been shown that in 85 per cent of cases of aortic insufficiency in persons, usually males, over forty-five years, who did not have chronic infective endocarditis, the Wassermann reaction was positive.

From Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. by Warfield, Louis Marshall