congenital defects

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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.

– origin C18: from L. congenitus, from con- ‘together’ + genitus (past part. of gignere ‘beget’) + -al.