Medical Dictionary
Main Entry:
mal·a·die de Ro·ger Pronunciation:
"mal-&-'dE-d&-rO-'zhA Function:
noun : a small usually asymptomatic defect in theseptum between the ventricles
Roáger /ro-zhA,/ Henri–Louis (1809–1891), French physician. Roger made his principal contribution in pediatrics and was thefirst to give systematic clinical instruction in this field. His early research centered on auscultation, a subject on which he wrote a monograph. In 1879 he described an abnormal congenital openingbetween the ventricles of the heart; this congenital defect is now known as the maladie de Roger. He was not the first to describe this defect, but he was the first to make clinicopathologicobservations based on a number of cases.
