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Definition of Dextrocardia
1. Noun. Abnormal condition where the heart is located toward the right side of the chest.
Definition of Dextrocardia
1. Noun. (medicine) A congenital abnormality in which the heart is transposed to the right side of the chest ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Dextrocardia
1. The location of the heart in the right hemithorax, either secondary to a disease process or congenital mirror-image reversal. (27 Sep 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dextrocardia
Literary usage of Dextrocardia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"dextrocardia dextrocardia, without other serious lesions, is usually associated
with the transposition of other ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1919)
"I have recently been afforded the opportunity of observing three cases of congenital
dextrocardia. Two types of this anomaly are recognized: one associated ..."
3. Diseases of the Heart and Arterial System by Robert Hall Babcock (1903)
"The detection of the dextrocardia depends upon the recognition of the cardiac
... ACQUIRED dextrocardia Morbid Anatomy.—This form of dextrocardia may be ..."
4. Diseases of the Heart and Arterial System: Designed to be a Practical by Robert Hall Babcock (1909)
"The detection of the dextrocardia depends upon the recognition of the cardiac
... ACQUIRED dextrocardia Morbid Anatomy.—This form of dextrocardia may be ..."
5. Essentials of Diagnosis: Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers by Solomon Solis-Cohen, Augustus Adolph Eshner (1902)
"Systolic murmurs are heard practically indistinguishable from those occasioned
by valvular derangement. What is dextrocardia ? dextrocardia. ..."
6. Transactions of the Association of American Physicians by Association of American Physicians (1902)
"A comparison between the two methods in a case of dextrocardia in a girl aged
seven years, a patient of Dr. EP Joslin, at the Boston City Hospital, ..."
7. Clinical electrocardiography by Fredrick Arthur Willius (1922)
"... but on diagnostic probability; absolute identification of congenital defects
must be reserved for the pathologist. CONGENITAL dextrocardia ..."
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