One of the four valves in the heart, this valve is situated at exit of the left ventricle of the heart where the aorta begins. The aortic valve lets blood from the left ventricle be pumped up into the aorta but prevents blood once it is in the aorta from returning to the heart. — BTO
Machine-generated and unreviewed. Its grounding comes
from the seeder's rules, not from a curator.
Source attestations
Each upstream vocabulary's own account of this habitat. Assertion
counts are per-source units and are not comparable across sources —
GOLD counts organisms, BacDive strains, PREGO taxa.
What each upstream vocabulary says about this habitat
Source
Label / path
Assertions
Unit
PREGO
aortic valve
1
TAXON
Associated taxa
Taxa reported from this habitat, which is weaker than being
characteristic of it. rank is out of pool: a high rank in a
pool of thousands of near-tied scores is a weak claim. Entries corroborated by a
second, independent source are listed first.