congenital anomaly

Questions about congenital anomaly

What does congenital anomaly mean?

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

What is another word for congenital anomaly?

Close synonyms include birth defect, congenital defect, congenital disorder, congenital abnormality. 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 anomaly a common word?

congenital anomaly 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.