"VACTERL" meaning in All languages combined

See VACTERL on Wiktionary

Proper name [English]

Etymology: Initialism (see below). Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} VACTERL
  1. (medicine) Initialism of Vertebral anomalies, Anal atresia, Cardiac defects, Tracheoesophageal fistula and/or Esophageal atresia, Renal and radial anomalies, and Limb defects. (A group of birth defects that tend to occur together). Wikipedia link: VACTERL Tags: abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: Vertebral anomalies (extra: A group of birth defects that tend to occur together), Anal atresia (extra: A group of birth defects that tend to occur together), Cardiac defects (extra: A group of birth defects that tend to occur together), Tracheoesophageal fistula and/or Esophageal atresia (extra: A group of birth defects that tend to occur together), Renal and radial anomalies (extra: A group of birth defects that tend to occur together), and Limb defects (extra: A group of birth defects that tend to occur together) Categories (topical): Medicine
    Sense id: en-VACTERL-en-name-DgUAQMDe Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: medicine, sciences

Download JSON data for VACTERL meaning in All languages combined (2.7kB)

{
  "etymology_text": "Initialism (see below).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "VACTERL",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "A group of birth defects that tend to occur together",
          "word": "Vertebral anomalies"
        },
        {
          "extra": "A group of birth defects that tend to occur together",
          "word": "Anal atresia"
        },
        {
          "extra": "A group of birth defects that tend to occur together",
          "word": "Cardiac defects"
        },
        {
          "extra": "A group of birth defects that tend to occur together",
          "word": "Tracheoesophageal fistula and/or Esophageal atresia"
        },
        {
          "extra": "A group of birth defects that tend to occur together",
          "word": "Renal and radial anomalies"
        },
        {
          "extra": "A group of birth defects that tend to occur together",
          "word": "and Limb defects"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Medicine",
          "orig": "en:Medicine",
          "parents": [
            "Biology",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2014, Richard J. Martin, Avroy A. Fanaroff, Michele C. Walsh, Fanaroff and Martin's Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine: Diseases of the Fetus and Infant, Elsevier Health Sciences, page 1213",
          "text": "Although a single pathogenetic mechanism has not been identified to tie all the manifestations of VACTERL together, recognition of this association is helpful in caring for the neonate and facilitating multidisciplinary care and follow-up.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Initialism of Vertebral anomalies, Anal atresia, Cardiac defects, Tracheoesophageal fistula and/or Esophageal atresia, Renal and radial anomalies, and Limb defects. (A group of birth defects that tend to occur together)."
      ],
      "id": "en-VACTERL-en-name-DgUAQMDe",
      "links": [
        [
          "medicine",
          "medicine"
        ],
        [
          "Vertebral",
          "vertebral#English"
        ],
        [
          "anomalies",
          "anomaly#English"
        ],
        [
          "Anal",
          "anal#English"
        ],
        [
          "atresia",
          "atresia#English"
        ],
        [
          "Cardiac",
          "cardiac#English"
        ],
        [
          "defect",
          "defect#English"
        ],
        [
          "Tracheoesophageal",
          "tracheoesophageal#English"
        ],
        [
          "fistula",
          "fistula#English"
        ],
        [
          "Esophageal",
          "esophageal#English"
        ],
        [
          "Renal",
          "renal#English"
        ],
        [
          "radial",
          "radial#English"
        ],
        [
          "Limb",
          "limb#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(medicine) Initialism of Vertebral anomalies, Anal atresia, Cardiac defects, Tracheoesophageal fistula and/or Esophageal atresia, Renal and radial anomalies, and Limb defects. (A group of birth defects that tend to occur together)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of",
        "initialism"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "medicine",
        "sciences"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "VACTERL"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "VACTERL"
}
{
  "etymology_text": "Initialism (see below).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "VACTERL",
      "name": "en-proper noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "name",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "A group of birth defects that tend to occur together",
          "word": "Vertebral anomalies"
        },
        {
          "extra": "A group of birth defects that tend to occur together",
          "word": "Anal atresia"
        },
        {
          "extra": "A group of birth defects that tend to occur together",
          "word": "Cardiac defects"
        },
        {
          "extra": "A group of birth defects that tend to occur together",
          "word": "Tracheoesophageal fistula and/or Esophageal atresia"
        },
        {
          "extra": "A group of birth defects that tend to occur together",
          "word": "Renal and radial anomalies"
        },
        {
          "extra": "A group of birth defects that tend to occur together",
          "word": "and Limb defects"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English initialisms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English proper nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "en:Medicine"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2014, Richard J. Martin, Avroy A. Fanaroff, Michele C. Walsh, Fanaroff and Martin's Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine: Diseases of the Fetus and Infant, Elsevier Health Sciences, page 1213",
          "text": "Although a single pathogenetic mechanism has not been identified to tie all the manifestations of VACTERL together, recognition of this association is helpful in caring for the neonate and facilitating multidisciplinary care and follow-up.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Initialism of Vertebral anomalies, Anal atresia, Cardiac defects, Tracheoesophageal fistula and/or Esophageal atresia, Renal and radial anomalies, and Limb defects. (A group of birth defects that tend to occur together)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "medicine",
          "medicine"
        ],
        [
          "Vertebral",
          "vertebral#English"
        ],
        [
          "anomalies",
          "anomaly#English"
        ],
        [
          "Anal",
          "anal#English"
        ],
        [
          "atresia",
          "atresia#English"
        ],
        [
          "Cardiac",
          "cardiac#English"
        ],
        [
          "defect",
          "defect#English"
        ],
        [
          "Tracheoesophageal",
          "tracheoesophageal#English"
        ],
        [
          "fistula",
          "fistula#English"
        ],
        [
          "Esophageal",
          "esophageal#English"
        ],
        [
          "Renal",
          "renal#English"
        ],
        [
          "radial",
          "radial#English"
        ],
        [
          "Limb",
          "limb#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(medicine) Initialism of Vertebral anomalies, Anal atresia, Cardiac defects, Tracheoesophageal fistula and/or Esophageal atresia, Renal and radial anomalies, and Limb defects. (A group of birth defects that tend to occur together)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "abbreviation",
        "alt-of",
        "initialism"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "medicine",
        "sciences"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "VACTERL"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "VACTERL"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-06-19 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-06-06 using wiktextract (372f256 and 664a3bc). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.