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PULMONARY STENOSIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pulmonary stenosis mean? 

PULMONARY STENOSIS (noun)
  The noun PULMONARY STENOSIS has 1 sense:

1. abnormal narrowing of the opening into the pulmonary artery from the right ventricleplay

  Familiarity information: PULMONARY STENOSIS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PULMONARY STENOSIS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Abnormal narrowing of the opening into the pulmonary artery from the right ventricle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("pulmonary stenosis" is a kind of...):

stenosis; stricture (abnormal narrowing of a bodily canal or passageway)

Holonyms ("pulmonary stenosis" is a part of...):

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 


It is characterized by the following abnormalities: multiple lentigines, electrocardiographic conduction abnormalities, ocular hypertelorism, pulmonary stenosis, abnormalities in genitalia, growth retardation, and deafness.

(LEOPARD Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)



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