ventricular septal defect

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   a common congenital heart defect; an abnormal opening in the septum dividing the ventricles allows blood to pass directly from the left to the right ventricle; large openings may cause congestive heart failure

   Broaderseptal defect

   Part oftetralogy of Fallot

Questions about ventricular septal defect

What does ventricular septal defect mean?

ventricular septal defect means "a common congenital heart defect; an abnormal opening in the septum dividing the ventricles allows blood to pass directly from the left to the right ventricle; large openings may cause congestive heart failure".

Is ventricular septal defect a common word?

ventricular septal 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.