HETEROTAXY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does heterotaxy mean? 

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

1. any abnormal position of the organs of the body

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HETEROTAXY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any abnormal position of the organs of the body

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

heterotaxy; transposition

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

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

 Context examples 

Mutation of the gene is associated with visceral heterotaxy autosomal type 5.

(NODAL wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Mutations in this gene can cause autosomal visceral heterotaxy.

(CRYPTIC Protein, NCI Thesaurus/LocusLink)

Mutations in the gene produce variant alleles that result in autosomal visceral heterotaxy.

(CFC1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)