mitral
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmaɪtɹəl/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Adjective
mitral (not comparable)
- Pertaining to a mitre; resembling a mitre.
- The mitral valve was named for a fancied resemblance to a bishop's mitre.
- (anatomy, medicine) Pertaining to the mitral valve.
- 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
Translations
pertaining to the mitral valve
Anagrams
French
Adjective
mitral (feminine mitrale, masculine plural mitraux, feminine plural mitrales)
Further reading
- “mitral”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Romanian
Etymology
Adjective
mitral m or n (feminine singular mitrală, masculine plural mitrali, feminine and neuter plural mitrale)
Declension
| singular | plural | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | |||
| nominative- accusative |
indefinite | mitral | mitrală | mitrali | mitrale | |||
| definite | mitralul | mitrala | mitralii | mitralele | ||||
| genitive- dative |
indefinite | mitral | mitrale | mitrali | mitrale | |||
| definite | mitralului | mitralei | mitralilor | mitralelor | ||||
Spanish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /miˈtɾal/ [miˈt̪ɾal]
- Rhymes: -al
- Syllabification: mi‧tral
Adjective
mitral m or f (masculine and feminine plural mitrales)
- mitral (pertaining to the mitral valve)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “mitral”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024