mitral insufficiency

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noun Pathology.

abnormal closure of the mitral valve resulting in regurgitation of blood into the atrium and leading to reduced heart function or heart failure.

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Also called mitral incompetence.

Origin of mitral insufficiency

First recorded in 1875–80

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.
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A physician was troubled to remember on which side of the heart are the “mitral valves.”
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How much more vivid to many persons in this example is a Correlation, thus: “Mitral valves … mitred Abbots… none left … left.”
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Mme. Baudoyer, born Mitral, was the sister of the bailiff of that name.
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