Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

intra-atrial

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.80 in modern English

Syllables: in-tra-a-tri-al
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

5

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Within an atrium, typically of the heart.

Example Sentences

"[I]t was only a few years ago that the first diagnosis was made of an intra-atrial septal defect and the first successful surgery to repair the defect was done even more recently."
"It took a pulmonary valvotomy and a patch closure of a ventricular septal defect, for starters, not to mention an intra-atrial baffle operation for transposition using extracorporeal circulation."
"The hospital was the first in Broward and Palm Beach counties to acquire the Transesophogeal^([sic]) Echo Probe for evaluating prosthetic mitral and aortic valve for dysfunction, intra-atrial thrombi and aortic dissection."

Etymology

From intra- + atrial.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: intra

Inflected Forms

intraatrial (alternative)

Phrases

intra-atrial conduction time

Questions

What does intra-atrial mean?: Within an atrium, typically of the heart.
Where does intra-atrial come from?: From intra- + atrial.

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