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Definition of Semilunar valve
1. Noun. A heart valve with cusps shaped like half-moons; prevents blood from flowing back into the heart.
Medical Definition of Semilunar valve
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Literary usage of Semilunar valve
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1. A Text-book of Practical Medicine: With Particular Reference to Physiology by Felix von Niemeyer (1878)
"If the mere pressure of the blood during diastole of the left ventricle do not
suffice to deploy and press together the leaves of the semilunar valve, ..."
2. Anatomical terminology, with special reference to the (B N A): With Special by Lewellys Franklin Barker (1907)
"... Anterior semilunar valve Right semilunar valve Left semilunar valve Nodules
of the semilunar valves Crescents of the semilunar valves Left atrium (0. ..."
3. The Popular Science Monthly (1884)
"As an example, organic disorder of the aortic semilunar valve will be presumed.
Imperfections of this valve are among the more frequent diseases of ..."
4. The London Medical Gazette (1830)
"... scales spread ou it—the heart itself was sound, and the semilunar valve» nearly
ri- tural. Besides this, there arose a distinct sac from the right wall ..."
5. The Physiology of the Circulation in Plants, in the Lower Animals, and in by James Bell Pettigrew (1874)
"That its existence is not necessary to the perfect closure of a semilunar valve,
... In the semilunar valve of the whale, where one would have naturally ..."
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