Courses
Courses for Kids
Free study material
Offline Centres
More
Store Icon
Store

Heart Valves

share icon
share icon

Valve Definition

MVSAT 2024

The heart has 4 chambers, which are two upper chambers which are known as atria, and a couple of lower chambers that are known as ventricles. Blood passes through a valve before leaving each chamber of the guts. The valve prevents the backward flow of blood. Valves are flapped-shaped. This is because they are seen in the shape of leaflets. They have a one-way outlet for the inflow of blood and one outlet for the outflow of blood. The normal valve has 3 flaps, except the bicuspid valve. It only has 2 flaps. The valve in human body are: 

  • Tricuspid Valve: This valve is found between the proper atrium and therefore the ventricle.

  • Pulmonary Valve: The semilunar valve is found between the proper ventricle and therefore the arteria pulmonalis.

  • Mitral Valve: This valve is found between the left atrium of the heart and therefore the ventricle. It has only 2 leaflets.

  • Aortic Valve: The semilunar valve is found between the ventricle and therefore the aorta.

We will understand more about the valves meaning in biology and more about the valve in human body in the further paragraph. 


Valve in Human Body

This will help us to understand valves meaning in biology. A heart valve may be a one-way valve that normally allows blood to flow in just one direction through the guts. So a question arises here that how many valves in human body are present. In the mammalian heart, there are four valves present that help in the flow of the blood. A heart valve opens or closes an obligatory differential vital sign on all sides. 

The four valves within the mammalian heart are:

  • Tricuspid valve

  • Mitral valve

  • Pulmonary valve

  • Aortic valve

Structure of the Guts Valves

The blood flows through the valves. The heart valves and therefore the chambers are lined with the endocardium. Heart valves separate the atria from the ventricles or the ventricles from a vessel. Around the fibrous rings of the cardiac skeleton, heart valves are situated. The valves incorporate flaps called leaflets or cusps, almost like a duckbill valve or flutter valve, which are pushed hospitable to allow blood flow and which then approximate to seal and stop backflow. Two cusps are present in bicuspid valves and three cusps are present in other valves. There are nodules at the ideas of the cusps that make the seal tighter.


Left, right, and anterior cusps are present in semilunar valves. The semilunar valve has left, right, and posterior cusps. The right atrioventricular valve has anterior, posterior, and septal cusps; and therefore the bicuspid valve has just anterior and posterior cusps.

[Image will be Uploaded Soon]


Grouping of Valves

The valves of the human heart are often grouped in two sets. Their functions are: 

  • Two atrioventricular (AV) valves to stop the backflow of blood from the ventricles into the atria.

  • Tricuspid valve, located between the proper atrium and ventricle.

  • Bicuspid or bicuspid valve, located between the left atrium of the heart and ventricle.

  • To stop the backflow of blood into the ventricle, we have two semilunar valves. 

Atrioventricular Valves

To learn more about the valves meaning in biology we need to understand the atrioventricular valves. These are the mitral and tricuspid valves, which are situated between the atria and therefore the ventricles and stop backflow from the ventricles into the atria during systole. They are moored to the dividers of the ventricles by chordae tendineae, which keep the valves from rearranging. 


The chordae tendineae are joined to papillary muscles that cause strain to raise the valve. Together, the papillary muscles and along these lines the chordae tendineae are alluded to as the subvalvular contraption. Subavular valves keep the valves from imploding. On the end and opening of the valves, no impact is there. There is a systolic pressing factor that is framed by the impossible to miss the addition of the harmonies. 


The closure of the AV valves is heard as lub, which is the essential heart sound. The second heart sound that is the dubb is heard by the closing of pulmonary valves. 


The bicuspid valve is the name of the mitral valves. This is on the grounds that it contains two cusps. It is on the left half of the guts and permits the blood to be because of the left chamber of the heart into the ventricle. 


During diastole, an ordinarily working bicuspid valve opens because of an expanded pressing factor from the left chamber of the heart since it loads up with blood. As the atrial pressing factor increments over that of the ventricle, the bicuspid valve opens. To work with the progression of blood into the ventricle, the valves are opened. Diastole closes with atrial compression, which discharges a definitive 30% of the blood that is moved from the left chamber of the heart to the ventricle. This measure of blood is perceived as a result of the end-diastolic volume, and thus the bicuspid valve closes at the highest point of atrial constriction to stop an inversion of the bloodstream.


The right atrioventricular valve has three leaflets or cusps and is on the right dorsal side of the heart. It is between the atrium and the ventricle and stops the backflow of blood between the two. 


Heart Valves Problems

A leaky valve condition is known as regurgitation. This suggests the valve does not fully close and therefore the blood flows backwards through the valve. This leads to leakage of blood back to the atria from the ventricles within the case of the mitral and tricuspid valves. Or it leaks back to the ventricles within the case of the aortic and pulmonary valves. This will cause the chambers to be overworked because they need to repump the additional blood that was returned. Over time, this will cause structural and functional changes within the heart chambers. The changes in the chambers thus result in preventing the blood flow normally. 

  • Stenosis: Stenosis may be a narrowed valve. With stenosis, the valve opening is narrowed and therefore the valve does not open correctly. This makes it harder for the guts to pump blood across the narrowed valve. The guts must use more force to pump blood through the stiff valve or valves. This will also cause structural and functional changes to the various chambers of the guts. These changes prevent the guts from pumping blood normally.

  • Atresia: This suggests the valve opening does not develop normally during childhood. This prevents blood from passing from atria to a ventricle, or from a ventricle to the arteria pulmonalis or aorta. Blood must find another route. This is often usually through a drag present at birth. This could be an atrial congenital heart defect or a ventricular congenital heart defect. This acts as another route for the blood to maneuver through the guts

Want to read offline? download full PDF here
Download full PDF
Is this page helpful?
like-imagedislike-image

FAQs on Heart Valves

1. Explain the Development of Valves.

Answer: In the developing heart, the valves between the atria and ventricles, the bicuspid and therefore the tricuspid valves, develop on either side of the atrioventricular canals. The canal becomes invaginated into the ventricle cavities by the extension of bases of the ventricles. The invaginated margins form the rudiments of the lateral cusps of the Atrioventricular valves. the center and septal cusps develop from the downward extension of the septum intermedium.

2. What Do You Understand by Semilunar Valves?

Answer: The aortic and pulmonary valves are located at the bottom of the aorta and therefore the truncus pulmonalis respectively. These also are called the "semilunar valves". These two arteries receive blood from the ventricles and their semilunar valves permit blood to be forced into the arteries and stop backflow from the arteries into the ventricles. These valves do not have chordae tendineae and are more almost like the valves in veins than they are to the atrioventricular valves. The second heart sound is caused by the closing of semilunar valves.


The semilunar valve, which has three cusps, lies between the ventricle and therefore the aorta. During ventricular systole, pressure rises within the ventricle and when it's greater than the pressure within the aorta, the semilunar valve opens, allowing blood to exit the ventricle into the aorta. When the ventricular systole ends, the pressure within the ventricle rapidly drops and therefore the pressure within the aorta forces the semilunar valve to shut. The closure of the semilunar valve contributes to the second heart sound.


Competitive Exams after 12th Science