STENOSIS (stenoses)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: stenoses   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does stenosis mean? 

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

1. abnormal narrowing of a bodily canal or passageway

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• STENOSIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Abnormal narrowing of a bodily canal or passageway

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

stenosis; stricture

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

pathology (any deviation from a healthy or normal condition)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stenosis"):

aortic stenosis (abnormal narrowing of the aortic valve)

enterostenosis (abnormal narrowing of the intestine)

laryngostenosis (abnormal narrowing of the larynx)

pulmonary stenosis (abnormal narrowing of the opening into the pulmonary artery from the right ventricle)

pyloric stenosis (narrowing of the pyloric sphincter that blocks the passage of food from the stomach into the duodenum)

rhinostenosis (narrowing of the passages in the nasal cavities)

mitral stenosis; mitral valve stenosis (obstruction or narrowing of the mitral valve (as by scarring from rheumatic fever))

ureterostenosis (stenosis of the ureter)

Derivation:

stenotic (abnormally constricted body canal or passage)

 Context examples 

A terminology codelist to describe the severity of cardiac valvular stenosis.

(CDISC SDTM Cardiac Valvular Stenosis Severity Terminology, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Terminology associated with the location of the most severe stenosis within a graft codelist of the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) Standard Data Tabulation Model (SDTM).

(CDISC SDTM Location of Most Severe Stenosis Within a Graft Terminology, NCI Thesaurus)

The pressure distal to the stenosis divided by the pressure proximal to the stenosis.

(Fractional Flow Reserve Ratio of Vessel, NCI Thesaurus)

A lesion-specific measure of stenosis severity within a blood vessel.

(Fractional Flow Reserve of Vessel, NCI Thesaurus)

Value estimated for a vessel in the absence of a stenosis.

(Estimated Potential Vessel Value, NCI Thesaurus/DICOM)

Terminology associated with the cardiac valvular stenosis severity codelist of the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) Standard Data Tabulation Model (SDTM).

(CDISC SDTM Cardiac Valvular Stenosis Severity Terminology, NCI Thesaurus)

The study has important implications for the development of new drugs that may prevent early CAVD from progressing to stenosis by making GAGs less likely to bind LDL.

(New Hope for Stopping An Understudied Heart Disease in Its Tracks, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Fifty percent or greater stenosis within an existing stent.

(In Stent Restenosis, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)

Placement of intracoronary devices across the coronary stenosis is troublesome or formidable.

(Difficulty Crossing Culprit Lesion During Percutaneous Coronary Intervention, NCI Thesaurus/ACC)

The qualitative measurement of the severity of cardiac valvular stenosis.

(Cardiac Valvular Stenosis Severity, NCI Thesaurus)