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What does dextrocardia mean?

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Noun
  1. (medicine) A congenital abnormality in which the heart is transposed to the right side of the chest
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Last January, Ms. Peralta learned she had been living with dextrocardia, a heart condition, since birth.
A roentgenogram of the chest revealed dextrocardia and hyperlucent left lung fields.
The three-year-old was born with a genetic condition with left him with an absent left radius and thumb, hypoplasia of the right thumb and dextrocardia glandular hypospadius.
Vectorcardiogram in dextrocardia, dextroversion and dextroposition.Systematization and clinical study of dextroversion, mirror-image dextrocardia, and laevoversion.
Similar results were seen with glaucoma, schizophrenia, dextrocardia, and cerebral palsy.
He also has dextrocardia, in which the heart points toward the right side of the chest instead of the left.

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