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mitral(dictionary)
Mitral(medicine)
mitral tap(medicine)
mitral regurgitation(medicine)
mitral area(medicine)
Mitral Stenosis(health)
Mitral valve(health)
mitral stenosis(medicine)

mitral incompetence (medicine) and pop fly (oh)


mitral incompetence (medicine)


mitral incompetence
<cardiology> The back flow of blood from the left ventricle to the left atrium through a defective mitral bicuspid valve. The most common cause for mitral regurgitation is rheumatic fever.

Other causes include: myocardial infarction, massive calcification of the mitral annulus (in the elderly), lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, infectious endocarditis and ankylosing spondylitis.


pop fly (oh)



n [C]
a type of hit in Baseball in which the ball is hit straight up into the air