congenital heart disease
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Noun[edit]
congenital heart disease (countable and uncountable, plural congenital heart diseases)
- (pathology, cardiology) Synonym of congenital heart defect.
- 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, Portland, Ore.: Northwest Medical Publishing Association, page 170:
- 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.