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Heart Valves

"Heart Valves" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Flaps of tissue that prevent regurgitation of BLOOD from the HEART VENTRICLES to the HEART ATRIA or from the PULMONARY ARTERIES or AORTA to the ventricles.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Heart Valves" by people in this website by year, and whether "Heart Valves" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 20 publications over 12 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2012
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