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Definition of Cardiac valve
1. Noun. A valve to control one-way flow of blood.
Group relationships: Heart, Pump, Ticker
Terms within: Cusp, Leaflet
Specialized synonyms: Atrioventricular Valve, Semilunar Valve
Generic synonyms: Valve
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cardiac Valve
Literary usage of Cardiac valve
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Diseases of the heart and arterial system: Designed to be a Practical by Robert Hall Babcock (1909)
"The four sets of valves arc hunched closely together not far from the junction
of the third left costal cartilage with the border u. 1.—cardiac valve AREA«. ..."
2. Transactions of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland by Academy of Medicine in Ireland (1905)
"Anomaly of cardiac valve. DR. MOORHEAD exhibited a case of anomaly of the mitral
valve. On the ventricular aspect of the large anterior cusp a small foramen ..."
3. A Text-book upon the pathogenic bacteria: For Students of Medicine and by Joseph McFarland (1900)
"The existence of a slightly damaged cardiac valve is frequently the nidus in
which circulating bacteria find rest and produce the malignant or ulcerative ..."
4. Observations on budding in paludicella and some other bryozoa by Charles Benedict Davenport (1891)
"This appears to become deeper, sinking downward and somewhat toward the cardiac
valve (Fig. 78, gn.). Finally it becomes constricted off from the wall of ..."
5. Proceedings by Zoological Society of London (1882)
"This conclusion will be found to be confirmed by the facts wh we now shall expose
in reference to the right cardiac valve of Orni! rhynchus. ..."
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