pulmonary valve

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   a semilunar valve between the right ventricle and the pulmonary artery; prevents blood from flowing from the artery back into the heart

   Broadersemilunar valve

Questions about pulmonary valve

What does pulmonary valve mean?

pulmonary valve means "a semilunar valve between the right ventricle and the pulmonary artery; prevents blood from flowing from the artery back into the heart".

Is pulmonary valve a common word?

pulmonary 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.