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Definition of Aortic orifice
1. Noun. The orifice from the lower left chamber of the heart to the aorta.
Medical Definition of Aortic orifice
1. The opening from the left ventricle into the ascending aorta; it is guarded by the aortic valve. Synonym: ostium aortae, aortic ostium. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aortic Orifice
Literary usage of Aortic orifice
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"Stenosis of the aortic orifice Stenosis of the aortic orifice may be due to ...
The result of stenosis of Hie aortic orifice is invariably hypertrophy of ..."
2. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1870)
"aortic orifice. volume expelled in Velocity through aortic orifice = -J _5 ...
and leaves it through the aortic orifice at the rate of nearly 1^ mile per ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1859)
"This conclusion is corroborated by the presence of a murmur referable to the
aortic orifice. " 11. Abnormal weakness of the aortic sound denotes injury to ..."
4. A Treatise on the practice of medicine: For the Use of Students and by Roberts Bartholow (1883)
"There are four points at which these lesions may occur: on the left side, at the
auriculo-ventricular orifice (mitral), at the aortic orifice (semi-lunar); ..."
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