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ACARDIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Congenital absence of the heart (as in the development of some monsters)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("acardia" is a kind of...):
abnormalcy; abnormality (an abnormal physical condition resulting from defective genes or developmental deficiencies)
Holonyms ("acardia" is a part of...):
monster; teras ((medicine) a grossly malformed and usually nonviable fetus)