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Definition of Mitral valve stenosis
1. Noun. Obstruction or narrowing of the mitral valve (as by scarring from rheumatic fever).
Medical Definition of Mitral valve stenosis
1. A rheumatic disease causing diffuse thickening of the mitral valve leaflets by fibrous tissue or calcific deposits. (harrisons' principles of internal medicine, 13th ed, p1052) (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mitral Valve Stenosis
Literary usage of Mitral valve stenosis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook of Severe Disability: A Text for Rehabilitation Counselors, Other edited by Walter C. Stolov, Michael R. Clowers (2000)
"mitral valve stenosis occurs mainly in females and symptoms begin in the third
to fourth decade of life. Symptoms of pulmonary vascular congestion occur ..."
2. The Clinical Journal (1898)
"There are two forms of mitral valve stenosis ; that in which the orifice is in
shape crescentic or button-hole, and that in which it is round ..."
3. Diseases of the heart and thoracic aorta by Byrom Bramwell (1884)
"Section through the posterior walls of the left auricle and ventricle, and through
the posterior segment of the mitral valve. Stenosis of the orifice was ..."
4. Progressive Medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1901)
"Insufficiency of the mitral valve; stenosis of the mitral valve. (6) Myocardial.
(1) Acute myocarditis in typhoid, grip, variola, etc.; ..."
5. Textbook of human physiology by Leonard Landois, William Stirling (1889)
"They may occur on the left side, owing to insufficiency of the mitral valve,
stenosis of the aorta, and in the calcification and dilatation of the ascending ..."
6. Heart Disease: With Special Reference to Prognosis and Treatment by William Henry Broadbent, John Francis Harpin Broadbent (1900)
"... that lesions left by acute endocarditis are stationary is when, by adhesion
between the flaps of the mitral valve, stenosis of this orifice is produced. ..."
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