Definition of congenital anomaly Congenital anomaly
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| congenital anomaly - a defect that is present at birth | ||
| birth defect, congenital defect, congenital disorder, congenital abnormality | ||
| defect a failing or deficiency; "that interpretation is an unfortunate defect of our lack of information" | ||
| anomalousness, anomaly (astronomy) position of a planet as defined by its angular distance from its perihelion (as observed from the sun) | ||
| ablepharia a congenital absence of eyelids (partial or complete) | ||
| albinism the congenital absence of pigmentation in the eyes and skin and hair | ||
| anencephalia, anencephaly a defect in brain development resulting in small or missing brain hemispheres | ||
| ametria congenital absence of the uterus | ||
| color blindness, color vision deficiency, colour blindness, colour vision deficiency genetic inability to distinguish differences in hue | ||
| epispadias a congenital abnormality in males in which the urethra is on the upper surface of the penis | ||
| clinocephalism, clinocephaly 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 | ||
| macroglossia a congenital disorder characterized by an abnormally large tongue; often seen in cases of Down's syndrome | ||
| down's syndrome, down syndrome, mongolianism, mongolism, trisomy 21 a congenital disorder caused by having an extra 21st chromosome; results in a flat face and short stature and mental retardation | ||
| acrocephaly, oxycephaly a congenital abnormality of the skull; the top of the skull assumes a cone shape | ||
| cheiloschisis, cleft lip, harelip a congenital cleft in the middle of the upper lip | ||
| cleft palate a congenital fissure of the hard palate | ||
| amelia congenital absence of an arm or leg | ||
| meromelia congenital absence of part of an arm or leg | ||
| encephalocele protrusion of brain tissue through a congenital fissure in the skull | ||
| 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) | ||
| 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; frequently accompanied by hydrocephalus and mental retardation | ||
| plagiocephaly congenital malformation of the skull in which the main axis of the skull is oblique | ||
| polysomy congenital defect of having one or more extra chromosomes in somatic cells | ||
| hermaphrodism, hermaphroditism congenital condition in which external genitalia and internal sex organs have both male and female characteristics | ||
| 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; frequently accompanied by mental retardation | ||
| congenital heart defect a birth defect involving the heart | ||
| rachischisis, schistorrhachis, spina bifida a not uncommon congenital defect in which a vertebra is malformed; unless several vertebrae are affected or there is myelomeningocele there are few symptoms; can be diagnosed by amniocentesis | ||
| spinocerebellar disorder any of several congenital disorders marked by degeneration of the cerebellum and spinal cord resulting in spasticity and ataxia | ||
| hyperdactyly, polydactyly birth defect characterized by the presence of more than the normal number of fingers or toes | ||
| syndactylism, syndactyly birth defect in which there is partial or total webbing connecting two or more fingers or toes | ||
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