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heart valve
Sign in to saveAlso known as cardiac valve, heart valves, cardiac valves
flap of tissue that prevent backflow of blood around the heart
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Within Vinony's link graph, heart valve is referenced by 422 other articles, and connects out to heart, atrium and pericardium.
It sits within the topics Cardiac anatomy and Heart valves.
Its subject is documented across 43 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- System
- Cardiovascular
- Mesh
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Research
195,813 papers- Mechanisms of heart valve development and disease.Development (Cambridge, England) · 2020
- Macrophage lineages in heart valve development and disease.Cardiovascular research · 2021
- Partial heart transplantation: Growing heart valve implants for children.Artificial organs · 2024
- Heart valve tissue engineering.Transplant immunology · 2004
- Heart valve macro- and microstructure.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2007
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Encyclopedic overview
Sound of the heart valves closing in a healthy 16 year old girl. The stethoscope is at the tricuspid area.
A heart valve (cardiac valve) is a biological one-way valve that allows blood to flow in one direction through the chambers of the heart. A mammalian heart usually has four valves. Together, the valves determine the direction of blood flow through the heart. Heart valves are opened or closed by a difference in blood pressure on each side.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “heart valve” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.