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Fallot|ˈfæləʊ|
[Name of Étienne Louis Arthur Fallot (1850–1911), French physician.]
Fallot's tetralogy, a form of congenital heart disease in which four abnormalities occur together, freq. accompanied by cyanosis.
The condition had been previously described by a number of writers before Fallot published his description in 1888.
1927Amer. Heart Jrnl. III. 85 A case of pulmonary stenosis, dextroposition of the aorta, and septal defects (not strictly Fallot's tetralogy) in a man who lived to be fifty-two. 1970New Scientist 26 Mar. 625/1 Techniques and results for the treatment of Fallot's tetralogy—a particularly difficult type of blue baby with which to deal. |