See Also: palea(dictionary)
Palea(medicine)
Herbal medicine (botanical medicine, herbology, phytomedicine)(health)
tricuspid(dictionary)
tricuspid(medicine)
tricuspid area(medicine)
tricuspid stenosis(medicine)
tricuspid tooth(medicine)
Tricuspid valve(medicine)
tricuspid orifice(medicine)

tricuspid murmur (medicine) and palea (iou)


tricuspid murmur (medicine)


tricuspid murmur


A murmur produced at the tricuspid orifice, either obstructive or regurgitant.


palea (iou)



palea noun. , -eas. LME.
[Latin = chaff.]
1. A straw. Only in LME.
2. Botany. A thin dry bract or scale; esp. (a) (in the floret of a grass) orig., either of the bracts enclosing the stamens and pistil; now, the delicate inner bract (cf. LEMMA noun2 2); (b) a receptacular scale in certain plants of the composite family. M18.
3. Ornithology. A wattle, a dewlap. L19.
paleaceous adjective (Botany) covered with paleae or thin dry scales; of the consistency of chaff: M18.