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laevocardia

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
lae-vo-car-dia
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A condition where the heart is on the correct side of the body (the left), but the related structures are on the wrong side, due either to corrected transposition of the great vessels or to situs inversus.

noun

The absence of dextrocardia; normal positioning of the heart.

Inflected Forms

laevocardias (plural) levocardia (alternative)

Questions

What does laevocardia mean?
A condition where the heart is on the correct side of the body (the left), but the related structures are on the wrong side, due either to corrected transposition of the great vessels or to situs inversus.

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