congenital
(adjective)
Present since birth.
Examples of congenital in the following topics:
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Genetic Defects from Radiation
- In humans, microcephaly is the only proven malformation, or congenital abnormality, found in the developing human fetuses present during the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings.
- No statistically demonstrable increase in congenital malformations was found among the later-conceived children born to survivors of the nuclear weapons at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.