Destrocardia vs Dextrocardia - What's the difference?
destrocardia | dextrocardia |
(medicine) A congenital cardiac malformation in which the heart is facing to the right instead of the left
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(medicine) A congenital abnormality in which the heart is transposed to the right side of the chest
*{{quote-journal, year=1917, journal=American Journal of Diseases of Children, title=Recent Work in Anatomy, Physiology and Pathology of Childhood, page=193, volume=13, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=C90AAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA193, author=James B. Holmes
, passage=The term "pure dextrocardia" is used here to signify those cases of dextrocardia in which the liver and spleen are normally placed.}}