heart valve

collocation in English

meaningsofheartandvalve

These words are often used together. Click on the links below to explore the meanings. Or,see other collocations withvalveorheart.
heart
noun
uk
/hɑːt/us
/hɑːrt/
the organ in your chest that sends the blood around ...
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valve
noun[C]
uk
/vælv/us
/vælv/
a device that opens and closes to control the flow of liquids or gases, or a similar structure in the heart and the veins that controls the flow ...
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(Definition ofheartandvalvefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Examples includeheartvalveleaflets, parachute canopies, thin airfoils (including bird, insect, or bat wings), sails, kites, flags, and weather vanes.
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One of these patients was a student, one hadheartvalvedisease and one had a psychiatric history.
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Hasenkam et al.8 also observed patients who received oral anticoagulant therapy followingheartvalvereplacements, for at least a nine-month period.
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No figures are available forheartvalveimplants before 1986.
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These and other processes that have served to improve the quality and usefulness of theheartvalveshould not be constrained by the 'not-for-profit' principle.
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These and other processes that serve to improve the quality of theheartvalvecan of course be carried out on a commercial basis.
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For example, it is unacceptable to take aheartvalvefrom a deceased donor and sell it.
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Will he confirm that the amount of duty payable is £50 perheartvalveand that that is a tax on life itself?
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In people born withheartvalvedisorders, bacterial endocarditis, a potentially deadly infection of the heart, can result if they fail to take preventive antibiotics.
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If there be criticism, it must be made against those surgeons who quite deliberately carried outheartvalvereplacement surgery without advising the board.
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An example is porcineheartvalvetransplant, which is quite common and successful.
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However, severalheartvalvepathologies (e.g. rheumatic endocarditis) may lead to clinically significant valvular regurgitation.
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It is flexible and shock absorbent, essential qualities for a tissueheartvalvesupport.
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Heartvalvereplacement surgery may be necessary as this disorder progresses.
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Pulmonary valve diseases are the least commonheartvalvedisease in adults.
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He later underwent surgery after being diagnosed with aheartvalveproblem.
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Aheartvalveopens or closes incumbent upon differential blood pressure on each side.
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Timiras had recently hadheartvalvereplacement surgery.
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She died ofheartvalvefailure at the age of 57.
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