Fallot's syndrome
- noun
- /fəˈloʊz ˈsɪnˌdroʊm/
- Specialized
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síndrome de Fallot
- Children with Fallot's syndrome often appear blue due to reduced oxygen in the blood.
Examples
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Doctors explained that surgery could correct the heart defects associated with Fallot's syndrome.
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The child was diagnosed with Fallot's syndrome shortly after birth, requiring immediate medical attention.
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Children with Fallot's syndrome often experience difficulty breathing.
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Doctors diagnosed her with Fallot's syndrome at a young age.
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Children with Fallot's syndrome often appear blue due to reduced oxygen in the blood.
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Doctors explained that surgery could correct the heart defects associated with Fallot's syndrome.
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The child was diagnosed with Fallot's syndrome shortly after birth, requiring immediate medical attention.
Synonyms
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A heart problem present at birth that changes the heart's shape or how it works
A heart problem present at birth with four defects that change blood flow
A heart problem present at birth that makes the skin turn blue because four parts of the heart are wrong
An illness of the heart that makes it work badly
Surface Forms
Morphology
Fallot's + syndrome
‘Fallot’s’ is an eponymic proper name with no lexical meaning that a B1 learner would recognize, while ‘syndrome’ only signals a generic medical condition. The specific meaning (a particular congenital heart defect with cyanosis) cannot be derived from the constituents, so the expression is not predictable from its parts.
Etymology
Fallot's syndrome is named after the doctor Fallot who first described the condition. He showed it was a group of four heart problems that make the blood low in oxygen, so children often look 'blue', and today the name still refers to that same set of heart defects.