cardiac valve

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   a valve to control one-way flow of blood

   Synonymsheart valve

   Broadervalve

   Narroweratrioventricular valvesemilunar valve

   Part ofheart

   Partscusp

Questions about cardiac valve

What does cardiac valve mean?

cardiac valve means "a valve to control one-way flow of blood".

What is another word for cardiac valve?

Close synonyms include heart valve. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cardiac valve a common word?

cardiac valve 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.