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Definition of Congenital

1. Adjective. Present at birth but not necessarily hereditary; acquired during fetal development.

Definition of Congenital

1. a. Existing at, or dating from, birth; pertaining to one from birth; born with one; connate; constitutional; natural; as, a congenital deformity. See Connate.

Definition of Congenital

1. Adjective. (context: of a trait) Present since birth. ¹

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Definition of Congenital

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Congenital

1. Existing at and usually before, birth, referring to conditions that are present at birth, regardless of their causation. Origin: L. Congenitus = born together This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

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Literary usage of Congenital

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Digestive Diseases in the United States: Epidemiology and Impact edited by James E. Everhart (1995)
"congenital MALFORMATIONS, DEFORMATIONS, AND CHROMOSOMAL ABNORMALITIES (QOO-Q99) ... Ò congenital absence, atresia, and stenosis of duodenum Q41.1 congenital ..."

2. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"C. Special Diagnosis of Diseases of the Joints The principal diseases of the joints may be conveniently subdivided into: I. The congenital arthropathies. ..."

3. Healthy People 2000: National Health Promotion & Disease Prevention by DIANE Publishing Company (2004)
"19.4 Reduce congenital syphilis to an incidence of no more than 50 cases per ... congenital syphilis causes fetal or perinatal death in 40 percent of the ..."

4. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1911)
"congenital and reaction structures.— Structures (such as cork or cutin) which arise through reaction to environmental changes may be called reaction ..."

5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1919)
"congenital DEXTROCARDIA. BY FA WILLIUS, MD, MAYO CLINIC, ROCHESTER, MINNESOTA. ... In congenital transposition the primitive tube bends into a ..."

6. Anomalies and curiosities of medicine: Being an Encyclopedic Collection of by George Milbry Gould, Walter Lytle Pyle (1900)
"This peculiarity was evidently congenital, and no traces of a cent nil pupil n<>r ... quite an extensive article on and several illustrations of congenital ..."

7. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1893)
"There are some other varieties of oblique inguinal hernia depending upon congenital defects in the processus vaginalis. The testicle in its descent from the ..."

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