Meaning of BIRTH DEFECT

WordNet Dictionary
	Definition:		[n]  a defect that is present at birth
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	Synonyms:		congenital abnormality, congenital anomaly, congenital defect, congenital disorder
	See Also:		ablepharia, acrocephaly, albinism, amelia, ametria, anencephalia, anencephaly, ankyloglossia, anomalousness, anomaly, cheiloschisis, cleft lip, cleft palate, clinocephalism, clinocephaly, clinodactyly, color blindness, color vision deficiency, colour blindness, colour vision deficiency, congenital heart defect, defect, Down syndrome, Down's syndrome, encephalocele, epispadias, harelip, hermaphroditism, hyperdactyly, imperforate anus, macroglossia, meningocele, meromelia, mongolianism, mongolism, myelomeningocele, oxycephaly, plagiocephaly, polydactyly, polysomy, pseudohermaphroditism, rachischisis, scaphocephaly, schistorrhachis, spina bifida, spinocerebellar disorder, syndactylism, syndactyly, tongue tie, trisomy 21
Medical Dictionary
	Definition:		A congenital (present at birth) disorder varying from minor cosmetic irregularities to life-threatening disorders.
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Glossary
	Definition:		Any harmful trait, physical or biochemical, present at birth, whether a result of a genetic mutation or some other nongenetic factor.
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Thesaurus Terms
	Related Terms:		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, the pip, urogenital disease, virus disease, wasting disease, worm disease