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Definition of Mitral stenosis
1. Noun. Obstruction or narrowing of the mitral valve (as by scarring from rheumatic fever).
Medical Definition of Mitral stenosis
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Mitral Stenosis
Literary usage of Mitral stenosis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1919)
"These cases were definitely mitral stenosis and not aortic insufficiency, ...
Of the 36 cases, 24 were pure mitral stenosis, ie, with no insufficiency, ..."
2. The Principles and Practice of Medicine: Designed for the Use of by William Osler (1909)
"mitral stenosis. Etiology.—Narrowing of the mitral orifice is usually the result
of valvular endocarditis occurring in the earlier years of life; ..."
3. A Text-book of medicine for students and practitioners by Adolf von Strümpell, Frederick Cheever Shattuck (1886)
"Stenosis of the Mitral Orifice (mitral stenosis). mitral stenosis often develops
in chronic endocarditis of the mitral valve, as a sequel to a previous ..."
4. The Lancet (1898)
"In mitral stenosis the strain to effect thie equilibrium of the two circulations
falle ... In the pore funnel form of mitral stenosis, a disease which is, ..."
5. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1891)
"Digitalis in mitral stenosis.—Basing his argument on certain investigations into
the size of the left ventricle in mitral stenosis, ..."
6. Report. by Henry Phipps Institute (1907)
"Number of cases with circulatory disturbance 588 Aortic stenosis, 2 Mitral
stenosis, 2 Mitral regurgitation 24 mitral stenosis and regurgitation,. ..."
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