English > birth defect: 1 sense > noun 1, state| Meaning | A defect that is present at birth / birth. |
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| Synonyms | congenital anomaly, congenital defect, congenital disorder, congenital abnormality |
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| Narrower | ablepharia | A congenital absence of eyelids (partial or complete) |
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| albinism | The congenital absence of pigmentation in the eyes and skin and hair |
| amelia | congenital absence of an arm or leg |
| ametria | congenital absence of the uterus |
| anencephaly, anencephalia | A defect in brain development resulting in small or missing brain hemispheres |
| cleft lip, harelip, cheiloschisis | A congenital cleft in the middle of the upper lip |
| cleft palate | A congenital fissure of the hard palate |
| clinocephaly, clinocephalism | A congenital defect in which the top of the head is depressed (concave instead of convex) |
| clinodactyly | A congenital defect in which one or more toes or fingers are abnormally positioned |
| color blindness, colour blindness, color vision deficiency, colour vision deficiency | genetic inability to distinguish differences in hue |
| congenital heart defect | A birth defect involving the heart |
| encephalocele | protrusion of brain tissue through a congenital fissure in the skull |
| epispadias | A congenital abnormality in males in which the urethra is on the upper surface of the penis |
| hermaphroditism, hermaphrodism | congenital condition in which external genitalia and internal sex organs have both male and female characteristics / characteristics |
| macroglossia | A congenital disorder characterized by an abnormally large tongue |
| meningocele | A congenital anomaly of the central nervous system in which a sac protruding from the brain or the spinal meninges contains cerebrospinal fluid (but no nerve tissue) |
| meromelia | congenital absence of part of an arm or leg |
| mongolism, mongolianism, Down's syndrome, Down syndrome, trisomy 21 | A congenital disorder caused by having an extra 21st chromosome |
| myelomeningocele | A congenital defect of the central nervous system in which a sac containing part of the spinal cord and its meninges protrude through a gap in the vertebral column |
| oxycephaly, acrocephaly | A congenital abnormality of the skull |
| plagiocephaly | congenital malformation of the skull in which the main axis of the skull is oblique |
| polydactyly, hyperdactyly | birth defect characterized by the presence of more than the normal number of fingers or toes |
| polysomy | congenital defect of having one or more extra chromosomes in somatic cells |
| pseudohermaphroditism | congenital condition in which a person has external genitalia of one sex and internal sex organs of the other sex |
| scaphocephaly | congenital malformation of the skull which is long and narrow |
| spina bifida, rachischisis, schistorrhachis | A not uncommon congenital defect in which a vertebra is malformed |
| spinocerebellar disorder | Any of several congenital disorders marked by degeneration of the cerebellum and spinal cord resulting in spasticity and ataxia |
| syndactyly, syndactylism | birth defect in which there is partial or total webbing connecting two or more fingers or toes |
| tongue tie, ankyloglossia | A congenital anomaly in which the mucous membrane under the tongue is too short limiting the mobility of the tongue |
| Broader | anomaly, anomalousness | deviation from the normal or common order or form or rule |
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| defect | An imperfection in a bodily system |
| Catalan | malaltia congènita, malformació congènita |
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