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CONGENITAL HEART DEFECT
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A birth defect involving the heart
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("congenital heart defect" is a kind of...):
birth defect; congenital abnormality; congenital anomaly; congenital defect; congenital disorder (a defect that is present at birth)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "congenital heart defect"):
septal defect (a congenital abnormality in the septum between the left and right sides of the heart)
Fallot's syndrome; Fallot's tetralogy; tetralogy of Fallot (a congenital heart defect producing cyanosis; characterized by four symptoms: pulmonary stenosis and ventricular septal defect and malposition of the aorta over both ventricles and hypertrophy of the right ventricle)
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