mitral

English

Etymology

From mitre +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaɪtɹəl/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

mitral (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to a mitre; resembling a mitre.

   The mitral valve was named for a fancied resemblance to a bishop's mitre.

2. (anatomy, medicine) Pertaining to the mitral valve.

   Treatments for mitral insufficiency include antihypertensives and valvular surgery; today the latter is often minimally invasive and even totally endoscopic.

Derived terms

• aortomitral
• inframitral
• mitral annulus
• mitral cell
• mitral facies
• mitralic
• mitral prolapse
• mitral regurg
• mitral regurgitation
• mitral stenosis
• mitral valve
• perimitral
• submitral
• supramitral
• transmitral

Translations

pertaining to the mitral valve

French: mitral (fr) German: mitral (de) Hungarian: mitrális Italian: mitrale (it) Romanian: mitral (ro) Spanish: mitral (es)

Anagrams

• ramtil

French

Adjective

mitral (feminine mitrale, masculine plural mitraux, feminine plural mitrales)

1. mitral

Further reading

• “mitral”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French mitral.

Adjective

mitral m or n (feminine singular mitrală, masculine plural mitrali, feminine/neuter plural mitrale)

1. mitral

Declension

Declension of mitral

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	mitral		mitrală		mitrali	mitrale
	definite	mitralul		mitrala		mitralii	mitralele
genitive- dative	indefinite	mitral		mitrale		mitrali	mitrale
	definite	mitralului		mitralei		mitralilor	mitralelor

Spanish

Etymology

From mitra +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /miˈtɾal/ [miˈt̪ɾal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: mi‧tral

Adjective

mitral m or f (masculine and feminine plural mitrales)

1. mitral (pertaining to the mitral valve)

Derived terms

• válvula mitral

Further reading

• “mitral”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025