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Chris -- 2018-04-11
a tetralogy is something composed of four parts, just as a trilogy is composed of three. The Tetralogy of Fallot is a complex congenital heart syndrome with four distinct abnormalities. ‘Teratology’ is the study, literally, of monsters, but is mainly used to denote the study of congenital abnormalities. It’s natural to confuse these two obscure words, especially where they happen to overlap. ‘Tetralogy of Fallot’ gets 300k ghits and ‘Teratology of Fallot’ gets 16k. (Sorry to get all medical on you guys, but I think it’s pretty interesting!):
Repeated repair of teratology of Fallot: report of 11 cases and review of the literature …
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Teratology of fallot-CAVSD can be corrected at low risk and good intermediate survival.
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Teratology Fallot
Teratology of Fallot is a combination of four heart defects consisting of a large ventricular septal defect, displacement of the aorta. ...
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Cases with teratology of Fallot additionally showed a shorter outflow tract.
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Patients with severe congenital heart defects were further grouped into those with or without conotruncal defects, defined as teratology of Fallot, ...
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/703199_2
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Nice! I found some other “hopeful monsters”: tetralogy of fallout and teratology of fallout.
The teratology of fallout is a natural confusion someone like me might make. I would have chosen it over tetralogy of Fallot on a multiple choice test for medical conditions. This double-yoker is not too common, as you would expect, and was corrected immediately by others.
pop quiz
Q.: SQUATTING POSITION in which disease we see the patients take this position?
A.: teratology of Fallout..in the pediatric age group. I guess
(http://www.medkaau.com/vb/archive/index.php?t-2700.html)
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This user seemed to know that it should be capitalized, maybe it’s just a mistake.
Med students discuss exam content
2) Then we got Teratology of Fallout (This was the only Non-Random Section)
(http://pagingdr.proboards.com/index.cgi … hread=1666)
Bing finds 99 examples of “tetralogy of fallout”.
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