I once knew a Semilunar Valve
These make up the Semilunar Valves.
What is the Aortic and Pulmonic Valve?
These make up the Atrioventricular Valves.
What are the Mitral and Tricuspid valves?
During surgery, this is the site where the new valve is to be placed/ seated?
What is the annulus?
These are the number of leaflets (or cusps) the pulmonic and aortic valves contain.
What is 3 leaflets or cusps?
The number of leaflets in normal Mitral valve anatomy.
What is 2 leaflets?
This term describes when two leaflets fuse during development in the womb resulting in an Aortic Valve with two leaflets.
What is Bicuspid Aortic Valve or BAV?
This valve separates the flow of blood in the heart from the right ventricle towards the lungs.
What the pulmonic valve?
What are Chordae Tendineae?
This is often abbreviated with the term MAC.
What is Mitral Annular Calcification?
Semilunar valves, by comparison, are ________ than the AV valves in size.
What is smaller?
These are the muscles that help anchor these valves to fibers located in the right and left ventricles.
What are the papillary muscles?
This condition, which can begin as strep throat, can lead to heart valve issues later in life.
Hint: Miles Lowell Edwards had this very same condition as a child.
What is rheumatic fever?
These are the names of the 3 leaflets (or cusps) of the aortic valve.
What are the left coronary cusp, right coronary cusp, and non-coronary cusp?
A1 and P1 segments of the anterior and posterior leaflet are most close to which commissure of the mitral valve?
What is the Anterior Commissure?
These are the ingredients of a Chicago Hot Dog.
What are an all Beef Frankfurter, Poppy Seed Bun, Mustard, Relish, Tomato, Onion, Pickle, Peppers, Celery Salt?