English noun: birth defect |
1. | birth defect (state) a defect that is present at birth |
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| Synonyms | congenital abnormality, congenital anomaly, congenital defect, congenital disorder |
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| Broader (hypernym) | anomalousness, anomaly, defect |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | ablepharia, acrocephaly, albinism, amelia, ametria, anencephalia, anencephaly, ankyloglossia, cheiloschisis, cleft lip, cleft palate, clinocephalism, clinocephaly, clinodactyly, color blindness, color vision deficiency, colour blindness, colour vision deficiency, congenital heart defect, Down syndrome, Down's syndrome, encephalocele, epispadias, harelip, hermaphrodism, hermaphroditism, hyperdactyly, macroglossia, meningocele, meromelia, mongolianism, mongolism, myelomeningocele, oxycephaly, plagiocephaly, polydactyly, polysomy, pseudohermaphroditism, rachischisis, scaphocephaly, schistorrhachis, spina bifida, spinocerebellar disorder, syndactylism, syndactyly, tongue tie, trisomy 21 |
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