bileaflet

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English

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Etymology

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From bi- +‎ leaflet.

Adjective

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bileaflet (not comparable)

  1. (medicine, cardiology) Affecting two leaflets; especially, affecting both leaflets of the mitral valve.
    preoperative imaging before mitral valve repair for bileaflet prolapse

Noun

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bileaflet (plural bileaflets)

  1. (medicine, cardiology, sometimes attributive) A kind of prosthetic heart valve characterized by two semicircular leaflets.

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