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Definition of Congenital disease
1. Noun. A disease or disorder that is inherited genetically.
Generic synonyms: Disease
Specialized synonyms: Monogenic Disease, Monogenic Disorder, Polygenic Disease, Polygenic Disorder, Achondroplasia, Achondroplasty, Chondrodystrophy, Osteosclerosis Congenita, Abetalipoproteinemia, Inborn Error Of Metabolism, Congenital Megacolon, Hirschsprung's Disease, Mucopolysaccharidosis, Hyperbetalipoproteinemia, Ichthyosis, Branched Chain Ketoaciduria, Maple Syrup Urine Disease, Mcardle's Disease, Dystrophy, Muscular Dystrophy, Oligodactyly, Oligodontia, Otosclerosis, Autosomal Dominant Disease, Autosomal Dominant Disorder, Autosomal Recessive Defect, Autosomal Recessive Disease, Congenital Pancytopenia, Fanconi's Anaemia, Fanconi's Anemia, Juvenile Amaurotic Idiocy, Spielmeyer-vogt Disease, Congenital Afibrinogenemia, Albers-schonberg Disease, Marble Bones Disease, Osteopetrosis, Nevoid Elephantiasis, Pachyderma, Dwarfism, Nanism, Lactase Deficiency, Lactose Intolerance, Milk Intolerance, Porphyria, Hepatolenticular Degeneration, Wilson's Disease
Literary usage of Congenital disease
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Medical jurisprudence by Alfred Swaine Taylor, Edward Hartshorne (1861)
"... FROM congenital disease. GENERAL CONCLUSIONS. Causes of death in new-lorn
children.—The next important question in a case of infanticide, and that upon ..."
2. Physical diagnosis by Wallace Dickinson Rose (1917)
"The murmurs of congenital disease are very difficult to differentiate from
functional murmurs in anemic ... From acquired heart disease, congenital disease ..."
3. The Breeding of Animals by Frederick Blackman Mumford (1917)
"congenital disease. — The fact that a disease exists at birth is not always
adequate evidence that disease has been inherited. It is possible for certain ..."
4. The principles and practice of medical jurisprudence by Alfred Swaine Taylor (1873)
"... NAVEL-STRING MALFORMATION — DESTRUCTION OF MONSTROUS BIRTHS—DEATH FROM SPASM
OF THE LARYNX FROM congenital disease. Proportion of children born dead. ..."
5. The British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review, Or, Quarterly Journal of (1851)
"congenital disease, or rheumatic fever, in young subjects, almost necessarily
excluded. 3. Absent while the pulse is slow. 5. Almost exclusively confined to ..."
6. The Diseases of Infancy and Childhood by Henry Koplik (1906)
"On the other hand, it may be absent in marked congenital disease, as in deficient
ventricular septum and open ductus arteriosus. ..."
7. A System of Physiologic Therapeutics: A Practical Exposition of the Methods by Solomon Solis-Cohen (1903)
"Heredity and congenital disease—the Transmission o} the Infectious Diseases
through the Placenta; Lateral Chain Theory of Heredity. ..."
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