Congenital Definition

kən-jĕnĭ-tl
adjective
Existing as such at birth.
A congenital disease.
Webster's New World
Existing as if inborn; inherent.
A congenital cheerfulness.
Webster's New World

(of a trait) Present since birth.

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Origin of Congenital

  • From Latin congenitus com- com- genitus born past participle of gignere to bear genə- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Congenital Sentence Examples

  • About 3,500 to 4,000 children are born in the United States each year with congenital toxoplasmosis.

  • In 1999 there were no cases of congenital rubella in the UK.

  • The area of biological knowledge which Darwin was the first to subject to scientific method and to render, as it were, contributory to the great stream formed by the union of the various branches, is that which relates to the breeding of animals and plants, their congenital variations, and the transmission and perpetuation of those variations.

  • In the condition known as albinism there is a congenital deficiency or entire absence of pigment.

  • Amyloid develops in various organs and tissues and is commonly associated with chronic phthisis, tubercular disease of bone and joints, and syphilis (congenital and acquired).

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