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Inflammation of the valves consists of oedema and mononuclear cell infiltration of the valvular tissue and the chordae tendineae in the acute phase; fibrosis and calcification occur with maintenance of the inflammatory process. 22 � Subcutaneous nodules Subcutaneous nodules are rarely seen and when present, they are usually associated with severe carditis.
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The trial, known as TACT (transapical artificial chordae tendineae) is being conducted in Germany, Denmark,
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The NeoChord procedure was developed to treat sub-valvular chordal damage - the primary cause of degenerative mitral regurgitation - via minimally invasive implantation of artificial chordae tendineae.
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Quoriiam eft/fi4a = A/r,; manifeftum eft fore Hp squalem duplo Elementi chordae D H»
Opuscula mathematica Pietro Giannini 1773
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Quare m Cycloide Ordinaria tangens AM parallela erit chordae DH.
Opuscula mathematica Pietro Giannini 1773
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Between the left ventricle and auricle is a valve made up of two flaps of skin, the mitral valve, the edges of the flaps being connected with the walls of the ventricle through the intermediation of small muscular threads, the chordae tendinae, which stretch across its cavity to little muscular pillars, the papillary muscles; these attachments prevent the mitral valve from flapping back into the auricle, and as the blood flows into and accumulates in the ventricle it gets behind the flaps of the valve and presses its edges together.
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“The idea lately suggested itself to me,” he explained, “that an incision carried completely through the root of the tongue might be useful in stuttering which had resisted other means of cure, by producing an alteration in the condition of nervous influence, allaying the spasms of the chordae vocales….
Knotted Tongues Benson Bobrick 1995
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“The idea lately suggested itself to me,” he explained, “that an incision carried completely through the root of the tongue might be useful in stuttering which had resisted other means of cure, by producing an alteration in the condition of nervous influence, allaying the spasms of the chordae vocales….
Knotted Tongues Benson Bobrick 1995
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The sixth satire is actually addressed to him: admovit iam bruma foco te, Basse, Sabino? iamne lyra et tetrico vivunt tibi pectine chordae? mire opifex numeris veterum primordia vocum atque marem strepitum fidis intendisse Latinae, mox iuvenes agitare iocos et pollice honesto egregius lusisse senex. [
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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