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Definition of Congenital abnormality
1. Noun. A defect that is present at birth.
Specialized synonyms: Ablepharia, Albinism, Anencephalia, Anencephaly, Ametria, Color Blindness, Color Vision Deficiency, Colour Blindness, Colour Vision Deficiency, Epispadias, Clinocephalism, Clinocephaly, Clinodactyly, Macroglossia, Down Syndrome, Down's Syndrome, Mongolianism, Mongolism, Trisomy 21, Acrocephaly, Oxycephaly, Cheiloschisis, Cleft Lip, Harelip, Cleft Palate, Amelia, Meromelia, Encephalocele, Meningocele, Myelomeningocele, Plagiocephaly, Polysomy, Hermaphrodism, Hermaphroditism, Pseudohermaphroditism, Scaphocephaly, Congenital Heart Defect, Rachischisis, Schistorrhachis, Spina Bifida, Spinocerebellar Disorder, Hyperdactyly, Polydactyly, Syndactylism, Syndactyly, Ankyloglossia, Tongue Tie
Generic synonyms: Defect, Anomalousness, Anomaly
Lexicographical Neighbors of Congenital Abnormality
congenetic congenial congenialities congeniality congenialize congenialized congenializes congenializing congenially congenialness | congenic congenic strain congenically congenious |
Literary usage of Congenital abnormality
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists by American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (1916)
"A RARE congenital abnormality OF THE SIGMOID. BY BUDD VAN SWERINGEN, MD, Fort
Wayne, Ind. (With two illustrations.) Mrs. CC, thirty-seven years of age, ..."
2. Surgery of the Upper Abdomen by John Blair Deaver, Astley Paston Cooper Ashhurst (1921)
"These may be briefly denominated the congenital abnormality theory, ... The first
asserts that the pyloric stenosis is a congenital abnormality quite as ..."
3. Bulletin of the Medico-Legal Congress: Held ... in the City of New York by Medico-Legal Society of New York (1898)
"Sexual inversion, therefore, remains a congenital abnormality, ... At the very
least, such congenital abnormality constitutes a predisposition. ..."
4. Practical cystoscopy and the diagnosis of surgical diseases of the kidneys by Paul Monroe Pilcher (1915)
"... radiogram showing congenital abnormality of 100. ... radiogram showing congenital
abnormality kidney (after Braasch I 145 (after Braasch) ". 146 101. ..."