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congenital heart disease

congenital heart disease noun: any heart disease present since birth.

Noun

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

  1. Any 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...
    1. (usually) Synonym of congenital heart defect.

Synonyms of congenital heart disease

Forms of congenital heart disease

pluralcongenital heart diseases

Questions about congenital heart disease

What does congenital heart disease mean?
Congenital heart disease means any heart disease present since birth.
What part of speech is congenital heart disease?
Congenital heart disease is a noun.
What is the plural of congenital heart disease?
The plural of congenital heart disease is congenital heart diseases.

Words near congenital heart disease in the dictionary

  1. congenital cutaneous candidiasis
  2. congenital disorder
  3. congenital disorders
  4. congenital heart defect
  5. congenital heart defects
  6. congenital heart disease
  7. congenital insensitivity to pain
  8. congenitally
  9. congenitalness
  10. congenite
  11. conger

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