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Definition of Congenital defect
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
Medical Definition of Congenital defect
1. A birth defect. (12 Dec 1998)
Literary usage of Congenital defect
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of terms used in medicine and the collateral sciences by Richard Dennis Hoblyn (1900)
"A deformity due to accident or congenital defect ; if the latter, it is duo to
imperfect development, and adhesion together, of the maxillary and mandibular ..."
2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the English Courts of Common Law by Great Britain Bail Court (1870)
"WIGHTMAN, J.—Where a congenital defect has a tendency to produce that which, when
produced, ... But here the congenital defect had, at the time of the sale, ..."
3. Tests and studies of the ocular muscles by Ernest Edmund Maddox (1907)
"89 Chart of the Corneal Reflections of the right eye, in a case of congenital
defect of the Right Superior Reclus. Bein^ a chart of objective appearances, ..."
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