ACARDIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does acardia mean? 

• ACARDIA (noun)
  The noun ACARDIA has 1 sense:

1. congenital absence of the heart (as in the development of some monsters)

  Familiarity information: ACARDIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACARDIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Congenital absence of the heart (as in the development of some monsters)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("acardia" is a kind of...):

abnormalcy; abnormality (an abnormal physical condition resulting from defective genes or developmental deficiencies)

Holonyms ("acardia" is a part of...):

monster; teras ((medicine) a grossly malformed and usually nonviable fetus)