congenital heart defect

English

Noun

congenital heart defect (plural congenital heart defects, abbreviation CHD)

  2. (medicine, cardiology) A defect in the structure of the heart and great vessels present at birth.
    Alternative form: CHD (initialism)
    Synonyms: CHA, congenital heart anomaly, congenital heart anomalies
    Hypernyms: defect, anomaly, disease
    Near-synonym: congenital heart disease

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