{"term":{"id":"11315","title":"transposition of the great arteries","longtitle":"IUPAC Gold Book - transposition of the great arteries","doi":"10.1351\/goldbook.11315","code":"11315","status":"current","synonym":"<em>synonym<\/em>: transposition of the great vessels","definitions":[{"id":1,"text":"Congenital cardiovascular malformation in which the position of the chief blood vessels of the heart (aorta and pulmonary artery) is reversed.","notes":{"1":"Survival then depends on a crossflow of blood between the right and left sides of the heart, as through a ventricular septal defect."},"links":[{"term":"Congenital","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/\/terms\/view\/10552"},{"term":"aorta","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/\/terms\/view\/10416"},{"term":"conal growth hypothesis","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/\/terms\/view\/10549"},{"term":"malformation","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/\/terms\/view\/10914"},{"term":"pulmonary artery","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/\/terms\/view\/11157"},{"term":"ventricular septal defect","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/\/terms\/view\/11365"}],"sources":["PAC, 2016, 88, 713. 'Glossary of terms used in developmental and reproductive toxicology (IUPAC Recommendations 2016)' on page 814 (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1515\/pac-2015-1202)"]}],"altoutputs":{"html":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/11315\/html","xml":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/11315\/xml","plain":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/11315\/plain"},"citation":"Citation: 'transposition of the great arteries' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351\/goldbook.11315","license":"The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/) for individual terms.","collection":"If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org .","disclaimer":"The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using.","accessed":"2026-07-16T12:18:14+00:00"}}