mitral
adj/ˈmaɪtɹəl/
Etymology From mitre + -al.
1
Pertaining to a mitre; resembling a mitre.
- The mitral valve was named for a fancied resemblance to a bishop's mitre.
- Treatments for mitral insufficiency include antihypertensives and valvular surgery; today the latter is often minimally invasive and even totally endoscopic.
- Derived terms
- aortomitral, inframitral, mitral annulus, mitral cell, mitral facies, mitralic, mitral prolapse, mitral regurg, mitral regurgitation, mitral stenosis, mitral valve, perimitral, submitral, supramitral, transmitral