Bicuspid

Mine was caused by a congenital defect I was born with called a bicuspid aortic valve. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The auriculo-ventricular valve in the left side is composed of two flaps, hence it is called the bicuspid valve; in the right side this valve has three flaps and is called the tricuspid valve. ❋ Charles B. Michener (1877)

The left valve has two flaps and is called the bicuspid (or mitral) valve, while the right valve has 3 flaps and is called the tricuspid valve. ❋ Chalkie28 (2009)

Boone will have the operation - technically called bicuspid aortic valve aneurysm surgery - at Stanford University Hospital in California, and he plans to schedule it in the coming days. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The first, or most anterior pre-molar of the lower jaw has one predominant cusp or cone; the second, like both in the upper jaw, is "bicuspid," or bi-tuberculate, as in man. ❋ Unknown (1888)

These were anchored to the one remaining tooth, a lower left bicuspid. ❋ Kate Kelly (2010)

Sometimes children with this heart defect can also have a ventricular septal defect, a hole between the lower chambers of the heart, or a bicuspid aortic valve, which means the valve has two flaps instead of three. ❋ Unknown (2009)

First tooth arrives - a maxillary lateral incisor - though status-conscious parents describe it to relatives as a bicuspid. ❋ Gregory Beyer (2011)

Got Bluetooth wireless implanted in my bicuspid today. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Two molars on the right, two on the left, and a second bicuspid. ❋ Kathy Reichs (2010)

A few days after my upper left first bicuspid was yanked, my dentist gave me what he calls a flipper, a dead ringer for a real tooth, aged to match the rest of my flawed set. ❋ Emily W. Upham (2010)

If you have a bicuspid aortic valve two leaflets instead of the typical three, or have had a bicuspid aortic valve replaced, you need to be monitored for thoracic aortic disease. ❋ Amy Yasbeck (2010)

We are not going to be inundated any time soon by cool computer graphics of bicuspid valves and aortic aches during the commercial breaks of Monday Night Football. ❋ Amy Yasbeck (2010)

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