CONGENITAL HEART DEFECT

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does congenital heart defect mean? 

• CONGENITAL HEART DEFECT (noun)
  The noun CONGENITAL HEART DEFECT has 1 sense:

1. a birth defect involving the heart

  Familiarity information: CONGENITAL HEART DEFECT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONGENITAL HEART DEFECT (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)

 Context examples 

This can tell if the baby has a congenital heart defect.

(Newborn Screening, NIH: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development)

A congenital heart defect in which the heart is located in the right side and the other organs are in their normal position.

(Dextrocardia Situs Solitus, NCI Thesaurus)

A congenital heart defect in which there is an abnormal arrangement of any of the primary blood vessels of the heart in conjunction with a pathologic opening between the cardiac ventricles.

(Dextro-Transposition of the Great Vessels with Ventricular Septal Defect, NCI Thesaurus)

A congenital heart defect is a problem with the structure of the heart.

(Congenital Heart Defects, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

A congenital heart defect characterized by the complete atresia of the mitral valve.

(Mitral Valve Atresia, NCI Thesaurus)

A rare congenital heart defect characterized by the complete failure of the aortic valve to open.

(Aortic Valve Atresia, NCI Thesaurus)

A congenital heart defect in which there is an abnormal arrangement of any of the primary blood vessels of the heart in conjunction with the notable absence of any pathologic opening between the cardiac ventricles.

(Dextro-Transposition of the Great Vessels with Intact Ventricular Septum, NCI Thesaurus)