birth defect
imperfection or problem that is present from birth (such as a missing limb, etc.)
Congenital disorder
Birth defect
birth defect
Noun
1. a defect that is present at birth
(synonym) congenital anomaly, congenital defect, congenital disorder, congenital abnormality
(hypernym) defect
(hyponym) imperforate anus
birth defect
Synonyms and related words:
abnormality, acute disease, affection, affliction, ailment, allergic disease, allergy, atrophy, bacterial disease, blight, cardiovascular disease, chronic disease, circulatory disease, complaint, complication, condition, congenital defect, defect, deficiency disease, deformity, degenerative disease, disability, disease, disorder, distemper, endemic, endemic disease, endocrine disease, epidemic disease, functional disease, fungus disease, gastrointestinal disease, genetic disease, handicap, hereditary disease, iatrogenic disease, illness, indisposition, infectious disease, infirmity, malady, malaise, morbidity, morbus, muscular disease, neurological disease, nutritional disease, occupational disease, organic disease, pandemic disease, pathological condition, pathology, plant disease, protozoan disease, psychosomatic disease, respiratory disease, rockiness, secondary disease, seediness, sickishness, sickness, signs, symptomatology, symptomology, symptoms, syndrome, the pip, urogenital disease, virus disease, wasting disease, worm disease,
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.