congenital heart disease

noun

Any heart disease present since birth.

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congenital heart defect
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Meanings

nouncongenital heart disease (countable and uncountable, plural congenital heart diseases)

plural congenital heart diseases

  1. countableuncountablecardiologyAny heart disease present since birth.

    Advances in surgical treatment of congenital heart disease have contributed to the need of more accurate techniques for evaluating alterations in physiology of the circulation.

    1951 March, J. H. Lehmann, A. D. Johnson, W. C. Bridges, J. Michel, D. M. Green, “Cardiac Catheterization—A Diagnostic Aid in Congenital Heart Disease”, in Northwest Medicine, volume 50, number 3, Portland, Ore.: Northwest Medical Publishing Association, page 170
    1. countableuncountableusuallycardiologySynonym of congenital heart defect.

      Synonyms: congenital heart defect

Synonyms & antonyms

nounSynonym of congenital heart defect.

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congenital heart defect
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congenital heart defect
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