"Bicuspid" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and occasionally aided his memory by inventing for them a humorous significance. Professor Howes relates a story of this kind. While examining the papers of candidates for some examination, Huxley came across one in which the mitral or bicuspid valve of the heart was erroneously described as being placed in the right cavity. "Poor little beggar," said Huxley; "I never could get them myself until I reflected that a bishop could never be in the right." This ...
— Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work • P. Chalmers Mitchell
... or bicuspid, valve is suspended around the opening between the left auricle and the left ventricle, with the free margins extending into the ventricle. It is exactly similar in structure and arrangement to the tricuspid valve, except that it is stronger and is composed of two parts ...
— Physiology and Hygiene for Secondary Schools • Francis M. Walters, A.M. |
