DEXTROCARDIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dextrocardia mean? 

• DEXTROCARDIA (noun)
  The noun DEXTROCARDIA has 1 sense:

1. abnormal condition where the heart is located toward the right side of the chest

  Familiarity information: DEXTROCARDIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEXTROCARDIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Abnormal condition where the heart is located toward the right side of the chest

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("dextrocardia" is a kind of...):

abnormalcy; abnormality (an abnormal physical condition resulting from defective genes or developmental deficiencies)

 Context examples 

An electrocardiographic finding suggestive of dextrocardia with situs inversus, characterized by reversal of normal anterior R wave progression and the appearance of reversal of the right and left arm electrodes.

(Dextrocardia by ECG Finding, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)