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dextrocardia
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dextrocardia /dex·tro·car·dia/ (-kahr´de-ah) location of the heart in the right side of the thorax, the apex pointing to the right.
isolated dextrocardia  mirror-image transposition of the heart without accompanying alteration of the abdominal viscera.
mirror-image dextrocardia  location of the heart in the right side of the chest, the atria being transposed and the right ventricle lying anteriorly and left of the left ventricle.
dex·tro·car·di·a (dkstr-kärd-)
n.
The displacement of the heart to the right, either as dextroposition of a normal heart, or as cardiac heterotaxia, in which the left and right chambers are transposed.
dextrocardia
location of the heart in the right side of the thorax, the apex pointing to the right.
mirror-image dextrocardia
location of the heart in the right side of the chest, the atria being transposed and the right ventricle lying anteriorly and to the left of the left ventricle.
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