congenital
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
congenital /kənˈdʒɛnɪt(ə)l/
▶adjective (especially of a disease or abnormality) present from birth.
■ having a particular trait from birth or by established habit: a congenital liar.
– derivatives
congenitally adverb.
congenitally adverb.
– origin C18: from L. congenitus, from con- ‘together’ + genitus (past part. of gignere ‘beget’) + -al.
'congenital' also found in these Oxford entries:
albino
- alphafetoprotein
- amentia
- Angelman syndrome
- blind
- blue baby
- cleft lip
- cleft palate
- coarctation
- cretin
- Down's syndrome
- dumb
- erythrism
- hole in the heart
- Hurler's syndrome
- hypospadias
- ichthyosis
- mutism
- Patau's syndrome
- phimosis
- Prader–Willi syndrome
- ptosis
- spina bifida
- teratology
