intra-atrial

See also: intraatrial

English

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Etymology

From intra- +‎ atrial.

Adjective

intra-atrial (not comparable)

  1. Within an atrium, typically of the heart.
    • 1956 January 8, Merlynn Sally McAllister, “When doctors tried to save my life and my unborn baby … They froze me for 6 hours”, in Cleveland Plain Dealer, 115th year, number 8, Cleveland, Oh., →OCLC, “The American Weekly” section, page 6, column 1:
      [I]t was only a few years ago that the first diagnosis was made of an intra-atrial septal defect and the first successful surgery to repair the defect was done even more recently.
    • 1982 December 7, Field News Service, “Medical insurance creates dilemma”, in The Vidette-Messenger, Valparaiso, Ind., →OCLC, page 20, column 3:
      It took a pulmonary valvotomy and a patch closure of a ventricular septal defect, for starters, not to mention an intra-atrial baffle operation for transposition using extracorporeal circulation.
    • 1991 March 2, “North Ridge Heart Institute considered one of the finest”, in Sun-Sentinel, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.: News and Sun-Sentinel Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5B:
      The hospital was the first in Broward and Palm Beach counties to acquire the Transesophogeal[sic] Echo Probe for evaluating prosthetic mitral and aortic valve for dysfunction, intra-atrial thrombi and aortic dissection.

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