congenital abnormality

1. 1.

   a defect that is present at birth

   Synonymsbirth defectcongenital anomalycongenital defectcongenital disorder

   Broaderdefectanomaly

   Narrowerablephariaalbinismanencephalyametriacolor blindnessepispadiasclinocephalyclinodactylymacroglossiamongolism

Questions about congenital abnormality

What does congenital abnormality mean?

congenital abnormality means "a defect that is present at birth".

What is another word for congenital abnormality?

Close synonyms include birth defect, congenital anomaly, congenital defect, congenital disorder. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is congenital abnormality a common word?

congenital abnormality is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.