Definition of "stenotic" []

• Of or pertaining to a stenosis (adjective)

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• "Peggy McCann, RDCS: In patients with a big VSD, with serious overriding of the aorta, and seriously stenotic pulmonary valve."
• "I found the following sentence helpful in trying to understand what may be the relevant pathophysiology: "Unstable plaques that lead to myocardial infarction are not necessarily severely stenotic and severely stenotic plaques are not necessarily unstable .""
• "While the severely stenotic plaques may be a marker for the unstable variety being present elsewhere in the coronary circulation it is the latter that typically causes the myocardial infarction or acute coronary syndrome so that dilating the former may relieve angina symptoms but is not likely to prevent infarcts."