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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 ventricle
Familiarity information: PULMONARY STENOSIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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