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Medical Term:

buttonhole

Pronunciation: bŭt′ŏn-hōl

Definition:

  1. A short straight cut made through the wall of a cavity or canal.
  2. The contraction of an orifice down to a narrow slit; the so-called mitral buttonhole in extreme mitral stenosis.

See: buttonhole stenosis

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