heart valve

English

An animation showing several heart valves, each snapping shut at the appropriate moment within the cardiac cycle.

A diagram of the human heart valves. The valves in many other animals are similar.

Noun

heart valve (plural heart valves)

2. (anatomy, cardiology) Any of the valves in the heart which prevent blood from moving in the wrong direction.

   Hypernym: valve

   Hyponyms: atrioventricular valve, semilunar valve

Translations

valve in the heart

• Catalan: vàlvula cardíaca f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 心瓣 (zh) (xīnbàn), 心瓣膜 (xīnbànmó)

• Czech: srdeční chlopeň f
• Danish: hjerteklap c
• Dutch: hartklep (nl) f or m
• Faroese: hjartaloka f
• Finnish: sydänläppä (fi)
• French: valve cardiaque (fr) f
• German: Herzklappe (de) f
• Greek: καρδιακή βαλβίδα f (kardiakí valvída)
• Hungarian: szívbillentyű (hu)
• Italian: valvola cardiaca f
• Latvian: sirds vārstulis m
• Polish: zastawka serca f
• Russian: серде́чный кла́пан m (serdéčnyj klápan)
• Spanish: válvula cardíaca (es) f
• Swedish: hjärtklaff (sv) c
• Thai: ลิ้นหัวใจ (lín-hǔua-jai)
• Udmurt: сюлэмпель (śulempeľ), изёнпель (iźonpeľ)
• Ukrainian: серцевий клапан m (sercevyj klapan)

See also

• aortic valve (one of the semilunar valves)
• mitral valve (one of the atrioventricular valves)
• pulmonary valve (one of the semilunar valves)
• tricuspid valve (one of the atrioventricular valves)