PULMONARY STENOSIS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (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)

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