Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Abnormal arrangement of the internal organs in relation to one another.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
heterotaxis .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Biol.) Variation in arrangement from that existing in a normal form; heterogenous arrangement or structure, .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun dated
heterotaxis
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any abnormal position of the organs of the body
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Examples
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The term heterotaxy is intended to apply to the production of organs in situations where, under usual circumstances, they would not be formed.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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He had suffered since birth from a disease called heterotaxy, in which his heart was transposed with other organs, restricting blood and oxygen flow.
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Single ventricle defects include hypoplastic left heart syndrome, tricuspid atresia, double inlet left ventricle, some heterotaxy defects and others.
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Great veins, including patients with heterotaxy syndrome
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As, however, there is still some difference of opinion as to the correct morphological interpretation to be put on some of these cases, it has been thought better to include them under the head of heterotaxy than of prolification.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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Lee had been the longest living survivor of heterotaxy in the Pittman family before his death.
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