valvular incompetence
1valvular incompetence — noun inability of a bodily valve to close completely • Hypernyms: ↑incompetence …
2valvular incompetence — see under insufficiency …
3valvular insufficiency — Pathol. abnormal closure of a heart valve resulting in failure to prevent regurgitation of blood. Also called valvular incompetence. * * * …
4valvular insufficiency — Pathol. abnormal closure of a heart valve resulting in failure to prevent regurgitation of blood. Also called valvular incompetence …
5incompetence — noun 1. lack of physical or intellectual ability or qualifications (Freq. 1) • Syn: ↑incompetency • Ant: ↑competence • Derivationally related forms: ↑incompetent (for: ↑ …
6primary valvular incompetence — venous insufficiency …
7incompetence, incompetency — 1. The quality of being incompetent or incapable of performing the allotted function, especially failure of cardiac or venous valves to close completely. 2. In forensic psychiatry, the inability to distinguish right from wrong or to manage one s… …
8Regurgitation — A backward flowing. For example, of food. Or the sloshing of blood back into the heart (or between chambers of the heart) when a heart valve is incompetent and does not close effectively. * * * 1. A backward flow, as of blood through an… …
9venous insufficiency — inadequacy of the venous valves and impairment of venous return from the lower limbs (venous stasis), usually characterized by edema, warmth, and erythema, particularly of the lower third of the extremity; chronic insufficiency leads to stasis… …
10Foramen — A natural opening. Although a foramen is usually through bone, it can be an opening through other types of tissue, as with the foramen ovale. * * * An aperture or perforation through a bone or a membranous structure. SYN: trema (1). [L. an… …
