How to Use congenital in a Sentence

congenital

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  • The irregularity in my backbone is probably congenital.
  • Men with syphilis in the study passed the disease to their wives, who gave birth to babies with congenital syphilis.
    — Julie Washington, cleveland, 19 Oct. 2020
  • There are many different types of limb difference, which may be congenital or acquired.
    — Claire Gillespie, Health.com, 6 Nov. 2020
  • Still, the virus has remained a puzzle, and congenital rubella syndrome has remained a problem in other parts of the world.
    — Mark Johnson, USA TODAY, 8 Oct. 2020
  • Her son Jake, now 25 and doing well, was diagnosed with a congenital heart defect at birth.
    — Julianne Pepitone, NBC News, 5 Nov. 2020
  • Others, like Schwarzenegger, have heart problems their whole lives because of a congenital heart defect.
    — Giulia Heyward and Renee Valdes, CNN, 24 Oct. 2020
  • Hours later, Paul was diagnosed with five congenital heart defects.
    — Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2020
  • Dave was born with sacral agenesis, a congenital condition in which the lowest portion of the spine that forms the joint with the hips fails to develop.
    — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2020
  • The puppy had been surrendered by a breeder and was suffering from congenital glaucoma.
    — Michelle Matthews | Mmatthews@al.com, al, 3 Nov. 2020
  • The catheters are used to enlarge an existing atrial septal defect as a treatment option for patients with cyanotic congenital heart defects.
    — Paul Walsh, Star Tribune, 4 Nov. 2020
  • Mutations in the genes that code for microRNAs can lead to eye and skeletal disorders, as well as congenital hearing loss.
    — Alexa Robles-Gil, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Oct. 2024
  • The cause of the death of one child and the congenital health problems that Joshua’s suffers was cytomegalovirus, or CMV.
    — Stephen Singer, courant.com, 5 July 2021
  • The murmur turned out to be a congenital heart defect that was caught in time for treatment.
    — Nancy Clanton, ajc, 27 Jan. 2021
  • One of the voters the team helped was Heidi Bull Calf, whose 19-year-old son has a congenital heart defect.
    — Maggie Astor, New York Times, 6 July 2021
  • And then there are people like me, congenital anosmics who were born with no sense of smell.
    — Sharon Waters, SELF, 3 Mar. 2021
  • The child had a congenital heart defect and later died at the hospital.
    — Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 2 Dec. 2022
  • Statewide, the rate of babies born with the disease, a condition known as congenital syphilis, jumped more than 40-fold in just five years.
    — Anna Maria Barry-Jester, ProPublica, 4 Mar. 2024
  • Frech was born with congenital limb differences and ran on his first blades aged four.
    — Amy Woodyatt, CNN, 4 Sep. 2024
  • At birth, 90% of babies born with congenital CMV will not show any visible symptoms of the virus.
    — Essence, 19 July 2022
  • Bronny had surgery for a congenital heart defect and had his début with the U.S.C. Trojans four months later.
    — Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 23 June 2024
  • Fauci wrote it was not known whether the diseases were in fact AIDS, and not a congenital disease, but that some appeared to meet the criteria.
    — Molly Beck, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 4 Dec. 2021
  • Every case of congenital syphilis, when a baby is born with the disease, is avoidable.
    — Talia Herman, ProPublica, 1 Nov. 2021
  • Rates of congenital syphilis—syphilis passed from the mother to baby during childbirth—also jumped in the past decade, going up 937%.
    — Korin Miller, Health, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Once there, the boy, who suffered from a congenital heart defect, collapsed and began having a seizure.
    — Jim Salter, ajc, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Annika was born with the same congenital birth defect as Shaquem and wore a prosthetic on her right arm.
    — Mike Bianchi, Orlando Sentinel, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Though common, these moles lead to melanoma more often than congenital moles.
    — Madison Yauger, Health.com, 8 June 2021
  • Babies die as congenital syphilis continues a decade-long surge across the U.S.
    — Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2022
  • The boy had a congenital heart defect, and once at his grandmother’s house, collapsed and began having a seizure.
    — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 30 Nov. 2022
  • What is a congenital heart defect and how is it detected?
    — Nada Hassanein, USA TODAY, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Some are infectious, while others are metabolic, autoimmune, or congenital (meaning something you are born with).
    — Kumkum S. Patel, Verywell Health, 26 Sep. 2024

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