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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