heart valve

Questions about heart valve

What does heart valve mean?

heart valve means "a valve to control one-way flow of blood". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for heart valve?

Close synonyms include cardiac 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 heart valve a common word?

heart valve is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.