MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mitral valve prolapse mean? 

• MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE (noun)
  The noun MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE has 1 sense:

1. cardiopathy resulting from the mitral valve not regulating the flow of blood between the left atrium and left ventricle of the heart

  Familiarity information: MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cardiopathy resulting from the mitral valve not regulating the flow of blood between the left atrium and left ventricle of the heart

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("mitral valve prolapse" is a kind of...):

valvular heart disease (heart disease caused by stenosis of the cardiac valves and obstructed blood flow or caused by degeneration and blood regurgitation)

 Context examples 

Mitral valve prolapse (MVP) occurs when one of your heart's valves doesn't work properly.

(Mitral Valve Prolapse, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

The backward flow of blood from the left ventricle into the left atrium, owing to insufficiency of the mitral valve; it may be acute or chronic, usually due to mitral valve prolapse, rheumatic heart disease or a complication of cardiac dilatation.

(Mitral Valve Regurgitation, NCI Thesaurus)

Most people who have mitral valve prolapse (MVP) don't need treatment because they don't have symptoms and complications.

(Mitral Valve Prolapse, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)