congenital condition
From the womb
A congenital condition is a medical abnormality present from birth, whether inherited genetically or acquired during fetal development.
The term encompasses structural defects, functional disorders, and metabolic problems: congenital heart defects, congenital blindness.
Congenital doesn't necessarily mean hereditary—some conditions result from infections, medications, or environmental factors during pregnancy.
- birthComing into the world
- birth defectAbnormality present from delivery
- defectInherent imperfection or fault
- inheritedReceived from forebears
- abnormalityDeviation from expected state
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- disabilitydisability rights, disability culture, disability activism, disability services, disability identity
- Developmental Disabilitiesintellectual disability, developmental delay, autism, autism spectrum, Down syndrome
congenital conditioninfectious disease
Pathogen-caused transmissible ailment
occupational disease · traumatic injury · lifestyle disease · communicable disease · nosocomial infection
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