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

Words nearby mitral insufficiency

mitra, mitrailleuse, mitral, mitral atresia, mitral cell, mitral insufficiency, mitralization, mitral murmur, mitral orifice, mitral regurgitation, mitral stenosis

How to use mitral insufficiency in a sentence

An increase is also noted in the uric-acid diathesis and in diseases accompanied by respiratory insufficiency.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
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
A physician was troubled to remember on which side of the heart are the “mitral valves.”
Assimilative Memory|Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)
How much more vivid to many persons in this example is a Correlation, thus: “Mitral valves … mitred Abbots… none left … left.”
Assimilative Memory|Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)

Mme. Baudoyer, born Mitral, was the sister of the bailiff of that name.
Repertory Of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A -- Z|Anatole Cerfberr and Jules Franois Christophe

Medical definitions for mitral insufficiency

mitral insufficiency

Incompetence of the mitral valve of the heart resulting in backflow of blood from the left ventricle to the left atrium.mitral regurgitation