: a valve of three flaps that prevents reflux of blood from the right ventricle to the right atrium
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the WebThe defect, which affects the tricuspid valve — the valve that sits between the two right heart chambers — has left her with lung disease and severe chronic pulmonary hypertension. Eric Todisco, PEOPLE.com, 6 Jan. 2020 Tinslee was born with Ebstein Anomaly, which, according to Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, is an abnormality in the tricuspid valve, which separates the right atrium from the right ventricle, and affects normal blood flow.Fox News, 12 Nov. 2019 Interventricular septum, tricuspid valve, papillary muscles. Megan Stielstra, Longreads, 19 Apr. 2018
Word History
First Known Use
1670, in the meaning defined above
Medical Definition
tricuspid valve
noun
: a valve that is situated at the opening of the right atrium of the heart into the right ventricle and that resembles the mitral valve in structure but consists of three triangular membranous flaps