congenital

In a sentence

Six example sentences with congenital, each labelled with its topic.

• The scan at twenty weeks revealed a congenital narrowing of the aorta, so a surgical team was booked for the delivery.

  Medicine

• Neither parent carried the gene, so researchers classed the condition as congenital rather than inherited and looked at the pregnancy instead.

  Science

• Court records describe an emperor with a congenital deafness noted by midwives on his first day, long before any tutor met him.

  History

• Born with a congenital heart defect, the guard had surgery at three and started for his college at nineteen.

  Basketball

• Insurance law distinguishes congenital conditions, present at birth, from those acquired later in life.

  Law

• The singer's congenital hearing loss in one ear shapes where she stands on stage relative to the band.

  Music

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