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  • aortic valve

    a semilunar valve between the aorta and the left ventricle of the heart that prevents the blood from flowing back into the left ventricle.

  • heart

    Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.

  • pulmonary valve

    a semilunar valve between the pulmonary artery and the right ventricle of the heart that prevents the blood from flowing back into the right ventricle.

  • tetralogy of fallot

    a congenital malformation of the heart characterized by an abnormal opening in the septum dividing the ventricles, misplacement of the aorta so that it receives blood from both ventricles instead of only the left ventricle, narrowing of the pulmonary artery, and enlargement of the right ventricle.

  • ventricular

    of, relating to, or of the nature of a ventricle.

  • aorta

    The aorta is the main artery through which blood leaves your heart before it flows through the rest of your body.
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