Congenital Synonyms and Antonyms

kən-jĕnĭ-tl
Possessed at birth
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. inborn
  2. hereditary
  3. innate
  4. native
  5. connate
  6. inherited
  7. inbred
  8. inherent
  9. intrinsic
Antonyms:
  1. contracted
Forming an essential element, as arising from the basic structure of an individual
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. native
  2. built-in
  3. connatural
  4. constitutional
  5. elemental
  6. inborn
  7. inbred
  8. indigenous
  9. indwelling
  10. ingrained
  11. inherent
  12. innate
  13. intrinsic
  14. natural

Words Related to Congenital

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. fundamental
  2. be
  3. start
  4. congential
  5. anencephaly
  6. malformations
  7. amaurosis
  8. atresia
  9. fetalis
  10. malformation
  11. microcephaly
  12. cleft-palate
  13. cardiomyopathy
  14. hydrops
  15. congenital heart disease
  16. neurological
  17. achondroplasia

Congenital Sentence Examples

  • About 3,500 to 4,000 children are born in the United States each year with congenital toxoplasmosis.

  • The area of biological knowledge which Darwin was the first to subject to scientific method and to render, as it were, contributory to the great stream formed by the union of the various branches, is that which relates to the breeding of animals and plants, their congenital variations, and the transmission and perpetuation of those variations.

  • In the condition known as albinism there is a congenital deficiency or entire absence of pigment.

  • In 1999 there were no cases of congenital rubella in the UK.

  • Amyloid develops in various organs and tissues and is commonly associated with chronic phthisis, tubercular disease of bone and joints, and syphilis (congenital and acquired).

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