Levocardia (medical condition): A rare birth defect where the heart is located in the normal position in the body but all the other organs are transposed (on the wrong side of the body). Often heart or heart blood vessel defects are also involved.
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Levocardia: Situs inversus of the other viscera but with the heart normally situated on the left; congenital cardiac lesions are commonly associated. [levo- + G. kardia, heart]
Source: Stedman's Medical Spellchecker, © 2006 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. All rights reserved.
Levocardia: Location of heart in left hemithorax with apex pointing to the left, but with situs inversus of other viscera and defects of the heart, or corrected transposition of great vessels.
Source: MeSH 2007
Levocardia (medical condition): See Levocardia (disease information).
»Introduction: Levocardia
»Symptoms of Levocardia
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