Fontan

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proper noun

A commune of Alpes-Maritimes department, France.

OriginSpanish Fontán →
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Meanings

Fontan1

proper noun
  1. A commune of Alpes-Maritimes department, France.

Fontan2

nounFontan (plural Fontans)

plural Fontans

  1. medicineA Fontan procedure.

    In preparation for our first meeting after months of cyber-contact, I send Dr. Chin Damon's complete medical records. But he keeps asking for more: echo reports, Holters (heart monitoring data), growth curves, and all protein and albumin readings since his Fontan.

    2013, Doron Weber, Immortal Bird: A Family Memoir, New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 90

Fontan3

proper nounFontan (plural Fontans)

plural Fontans

  1. A surname from Spanish.

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
fontan procedure

Origin

  1. SpanishFontán
  2. EnglishFontan

Borrowed from Spanish Fontán.

More words from Spanish

Full word history & related roots →

Translations

Chinese Mandarin 豐唐 /丰唐
  • 豐唐 /丰唐 (Fēngtáng)a commune in France
Italian Fontano
  • Fontanoa commune in France

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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APA

Fontan. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Fontan

MLA

“Fontan.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Fontan. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Fontan,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Fontan.

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