Fontan
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Proper noun edit
Fontan
- A commune of the Alpes-Maritimes department, France.
Translations edit
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
Fontan (plural Fontans)
- (medicine) A Fontan procedure.
- 2013, Doron Weber, Immortal Bird: A Family Memoir, New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 90:
- In preparation for our first meeting after months of cyber-contact, I send Dr. Chin Damon's complete medical records. But he keeps asking for more: echo reports, Holters (heart monitoring data), growth curves, and all protein and albumin readings since his Fontan.
Etymology 3 edit
Proper noun edit
Fontan (plural Fontans)
- A surname from Spanish.
Statistics edit
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Fontan is the 34390th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 659 individuals. Fontan is most common among Hispanic/Latino (62.97%) and White (34.9%) individuals.
Further reading edit
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Fontan”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 1, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 588.