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Definition of Atrioventricular valve
1. Noun. Either of two heart valves through which blood flows from the atria to the ventricles; prevents return of blood to the atrium.
Specialized synonyms: Bicuspid Valve, Left Atrioventricular Valve, Mitral Valve, Right Atrioventricular Valve, Tricuspid Valve
Generic synonyms: Cardiac Valve, Heart Valve
Lexicographical Neighbors of Atrioventricular Valve
Literary usage of Atrioventricular valve
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Text-book of the Embryology of Man and Mammals by Oscar Hertwig (1901)
"atrioventricular valve, 555, 559, 561. Atrium bursa; omentalis, 300, 331. — of
heart, 554. Auditory organ. 490. — ossicles, 508, 619. — pit, 491. ..."
2. The Oxford Medicine by Henry Asbury Christian, James Mackenzie (1920)
"The closure of the atrioventricular valve is considered to be due in part to the
contraction of the atrial muscle at its attachment to the ring and in part ..."
3. Elementary Text-book of Zoology by Carl Claus, Adam Sedgwick (1885)
"As a peculiarity of the heart may be mentioned, the special development of the
right atrioventricular valve, which, unlike the tricuspid valve of the ..."
4. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1854)
"... to fancy that he had discriminated, a chink in an atrioventricular valve, or
the twanging of a fibrinous thread between the heart and the pericardium. ..."
5. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"An important exception is the rate of flow through a narrowed atrioventricular
valve during ventricular diastole. Here the flow is most rapid at the end of ..."
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