valvular heart disease

English Thesaurus

1. heart disease caused by stenosis of the cardiac valves and obstructed blood flow or caused by degeneration and blood regurgitation (noun.state)

hypernym	:	cardiopathy, heart disease,
definition	:	a disease of the heart (noun.state)

hyponym	:	aortic stenosis,
definition	:	abnormal narrowing of the aortic valve (noun.state)

hyponym	:	mitral valve prolapse,
definition	:	cardiopathy resulting from the mitral valve not regulating the flow of blood between the left atrium and left ventricle of the heart (noun.state)

hyponym	:	mitral stenosis, mitral valve stenosis,
definition	:	obstruction or narrowing of the mitral valve (as by scarring from rheumatic fever) (noun.state)