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birth defect

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A physiological or structural abnormality that develops at or before birth and is present at the time of birth, especially as a result of faulty development, infection, heredity, or injury.

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  • noun medicine Any of several medical disorders that are present at birth.

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  • noun a defect that is present at birth

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synonyms (72)

Words with the same meaning

  1. abnormality
  2. acute disease
  3. affection
  4. affliction
  5. ailment
  6. allergic disease
  7. allergy
  8. atrophy
  9. bacterial disease
  10. blight
  11. cardiovascular disease
  12. chronic disease
  13. circulatory disease
  14. complaint
  15. complication
  16. condition
  17. congenital defect
  18. congenital disorder
  19. defect
  20. deficiency disease
  21. deformity
  22. degenerative disease
  23. disability
  24. disease
  25. disorder
  26. distemper
  27. endemic
  28. endemic disease
  29. endocrine disease
  30. epidemic disease
  31. functional disease
  32. fungus disease
  33. gastrointestinal disease
  34. genetic disease
  35. handicap
  36. hereditary disease
  37. iatrogenic disease
  38. illness
  39. indisposition
  40. infectious disease
  41. infirmity
  42. malady
  43. malaise
  44. morbidity
  45. morbus
  46. muscular disease
  47. neurological disease
  48. nutritional disease
  49. occupational disease
  50. organic disease
  51. pandemic disease
  52. pathological condition
  53. pathology
  54. plant disease
  55. protozoan disease
  56. psychosomatic disease
  57. respiratory disease
  58. rockiness
  59. secondary disease
  60. seediness
  61. sickishness
  62. sickness
  63. signs
  64. symptomatology
  65. symptomology
  66. symptoms
  67. syndrome
  68. the pip
  69. urogenital disease
  70. virus disease
  71. wasting disease
  72. worm disease

hypernyms (3)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. anomalousness
  2. anomaly
  3. defect

hyponyms (47)

Words more specific or concrete

  1. Amelia
  2. Down syndrome
  3. Down's syndrome
  4. ablepharia
  5. acrocephaly
  6. albinism
  7. ametria
  8. anencephalia
  9. anencephaly
  10. ankyloglossia
  11. cheiloschisis
  12. cleft lip
  13. cleft palate
  14. clinocephalism
  15. clinocephaly
  16. clinodactyly
  17. color blindness
  18. color vision deficiency
  19. colour blindness
  20. colour vision deficiency
  21. congenital heart defect
  22. encephalocele
  23. epispadias
  24. harelip
  25. hermaphrodism
  26. hermaphroditism
  27. hyperdactyly
  28. macroglossia
  29. meningocele
  30. meromelia
  31. mongolianism
  32. mongolism
  33. myelomeningocele
  34. oxycephaly
  35. plagiocephaly
  36. polydactyly
  37. polysomy
  38. pseudohermaphroditism
  39. rachischisis
  40. scaphocephaly
  41. schistorrhachis
  42. spina bifida
  43. spinocerebellar disorder
  44. syndactylism
  45. syndactyly
  46. tongue-tie
  47. trisomy 21

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