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transposition of great vessels (medicine) and Medan (sh)


transposition of great vessels (medicine)


transposition of great vessels
<embryology> A congenital cardiovascular malformation in which the aorta arises entirely from the right ventricle and the pulmonary artery from the left ventricle, so that the venous return from the peripheral circulation is recirculated by the right ventricle via the aorta to the systemic circulation without being oxygenated in the lungs.

There is an intracardiac shunt, increased pulmonary vascularity, cyanosis. The chest X-ray shows that the heart size may be normal at birth, but it gradually enlarges with a globular or egg-on-its-side appearance.


Medan (sh)




City (pop., 1995 est.: 1,843,919), northeastern Sumatra.

After tobacco plantations were introduced in 1873, Medan became the commercial centre of an agricultural region where cash crops, including tobacco and rubber, were raised for export. It was made a city by the Dutch in 1886. It was occupied by the Japanese during World War II. The sultan of Deli's palace dates to the 19th century. Medan is the seat of the University of North Sumatra and the Islamic University of North Sumatra.