valvular incompetence

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   inability of a bodily valve to close completely

   Broaderincompetence

Questions about valvular incompetence

What does valvular incompetence mean?

valvular incompetence means "inability of a bodily valve to close completely".

Is valvular incompetence a common word?

valvular incompetence 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.