AORTIC STENOSIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does aortic stenosis mean? 

• AORTIC STENOSIS (noun)
  The noun AORTIC STENOSIS has 1 sense:

1. abnormal narrowing of the aortic valve

  Familiarity information: AORTIC STENOSIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AORTIC STENOSIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Abnormal narrowing of the aortic valve

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("aortic stenosis" is a kind of...):

stenosis; stricture (abnormal narrowing of a bodily canal or passageway)

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 

Mutations in the gene are associated with autosomal dominant cutis laxa and supravalvular aortic stenosis.

(ELN wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Causes include hypertrophic and restrictive cardiomyopathies, coronary artery disease, chronic high blood pressure, aortic stenosis, and aging.

(Diastolic Dysfunction, NCI Thesaurus)