VALVULAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does valvular mean? 

• VALVULAR (adjective)
  The adjective VALVULAR has 1 sense:

1. relating to or operating by means of valves

  Familiarity information: VALVULAR used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VALVULAR (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Relating to or operating by means of valves

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

valve (control consisting of a mechanical device for controlling the flow of a fluid)

Derivation:

valve (control consisting of a mechanical device for controlling the flow of a fluid)

valve (a structure in a hollow organ (like the heart) with a flap to insure one-way flow of fluid through it)

 Context examples 

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

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

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)

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

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

For a long time, people thought CAVD was just the valvular equivalent of atherosclerosis.

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

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

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

The qualitative measurement of the severity of cardiac valvular stenosis.

(Cardiac Valvular Stenosis Severity, NCI Thesaurus)

The disease often involves the atrioventricular valves, leading to valvular regurgitaion.

(Endomyocardial Fibrosis, NCI Thesaurus)

Benfluorex was never approved for use in the United States and was withdrawn in the European Union because of an increased risk of pulmonary hypertension and valvular disease.

(Benfluorex, NCI Thesaurus)

The qualitative measurement of the severity of cardiac valvular regurgitation.

(Cardiac Valvular Regurgitation Severity, NCI Thesaurus)

A fairly common and often benign valvular heart disorder characterized by redundancy or hooding of mitral valve leaflets so that they prolapse into the left atrium, often causing mitral regurgitation.

(Mitral Valve Prolapse, NCI Thesaurus)