valvular insufficiency

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noun Pathology.

abnormal closure of a heart valve resulting in failure to prevent regurgitation of blood.

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Also called valvular incompetence.

Words nearby valvular insufficiency

valvoplasty, valvotomy, valvula, valvular, valvular endocarditis, valvular insufficiency, valvule, valvulitis, valvuloplasty, valvulotomy, vambrace

How to use valvular 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
By this is meant in persons who have some organic lesion of the valvular mechanism of the heart.
Essays In Pastoral Medicine|Austin Malley
They too hastily confessed the insufficiency of arms and fortifications.
The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire|Edward Gibbon

Moreover, it was known to us all that Mrs Thornton was suffering from valvular disease of the heart.
Katharine Frensham|Beatrice Harraden

Medical definitions for valvular insufficiency

valvular insufficiency

Failure of the cardiac valves to close perfectly, thus allowing regurgitation of blood past the closed valve.