congenital heart defect

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   a birth defect involving the heart

   Broaderbirth defect

   Narrowerseptal defecttetralogy of Fallot

Questions about congenital heart defect

What does congenital heart defect mean?

congenital heart defect means "a birth defect involving the heart".

Is congenital heart defect a common word?

congenital heart defect is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.