aortic stenosis

1. 1.

   abnormal narrowing of the aortic valve

   Broaderstenosisvalvular heart disease

Questions about aortic stenosis

What does aortic stenosis mean?

aortic stenosis means "abnormal narrowing of the aortic valve".

Is aortic stenosis a common word?

aortic stenosis is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.