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RELATED WORDS : active birth alternative birth atrial septal defect autosomal recessive defect birth birth canal birth certificate birth control birth control device birth control pill birth pangs birth prevention birth rate birth trauma breech birth calendar method of birth control congenital defect congenital heart defect defect defect of speech genetic defect give birth give birth to given birth giving birth live birth mass defect new birth place of birth posthumous birth rhythm method of birth control septal defect speech defect vaginal birth ventricular septal defect virgin birth vision defect visual defect

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Noun birth defect has 1 sense

• birth defect(n = noun.state) congenital abnormality, congenital anomaly, congenital defect, congenital disorder - a defect that is present at birth; Array
has particulars: ablepharia, albinism, anencephalia, anencephaly, ametria, color blindness, color vision deficiency, colour blindness, colour vision deficiency, epispadias, clinocephalism, clinocephaly, clinodactyly, macroglossia, down's syndrome, down syndrome, mongolianism, mongolism, trisomy 21, acrocephaly, oxycephaly, cheiloschisis, cleft lip, harelip, cleft palate, amelia, meromelia, encephalocele, meningocele, myelomeningocele, plagiocephaly, polysomy, hermaphrodism, hermaphroditism, pseudohermaphroditism, scaphocephaly, congenital heart defect, rachischisis, schistorrhachis, spina bifida, spinocerebellar disorder, hyperdactyly, polydactyly, syndactylism, syndactyly, ankyloglossia, tongue tie
is a kind of defect, anomalousness, anomaly

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birth defect

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, syndrome, the pip, urogenital disease, virus disease, wasting disease, worm disease

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