Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun mitral_valve_stenosis

1 sense of mitral valve stenosis

Sense 1
mitral stenosis, mitral valve stenosis -- (obstruction or narrowing of the mitral valve (as by scarring from rheumatic fever))
       => stenosis, stricture -- (abnormal narrowing of a bodily canal or passageway)
       => valvular heart disease -- (heart disease caused by stenosis of the cardiac valves and obstructed blood flow or caused by degeneration and blood regurgitation)