How to Use birth defect in a Sentence

birth defect

noun

• The cub was born with a birth defect in one of her eyes.
  — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 Oct. 2020
• Clark was born with a rare birth defect and has no legs.
  — Petra Cahill, NBC News, 30 Aug. 2019
• One in 700 children are born with the birth defect each year.
  — Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 15 Nov. 2021
• In 2017, Eric had a blood clot in his chest that was caused by a rare birth defect.
  — Marie Milano, Country Living, 9 Nov. 2019
• Due to a birth defect, her front paws were upside down.
  — Alaa Elassar, CNN, 12 Sep. 2021
• But to put it in context, around 1 in 33 babies are born with a birth defect each year, per the CDC.
  — Addison Aloian, Women's Health, 7 Sep. 2023
• Among causes of deaths, birth defects showed a 23% increase, compared to a decrease of about 3% in the rest of the U.S.
  — CBS News, 24 June 2024
• That includes low birth weight, preterm birth and a host of other birth defects.
  — Carol Motsinger, Cincinnati.com, 6 Mar. 2018
• Quite a bit more troublesome is that isotretinoin is linked to birth defects.
  — Sarah Klein, Health.com, 28 Feb. 2018
• He was born with two fingers on his left hand because of a birth defect.
  — Dan Labbe, cleveland, 20 Nov. 2019
• There’s a spectrum, because it’s not just one type of birth defect.
  — Yvonne Villarrealstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2022
• Tyler was born brain dead, and Paige had a critical heart birth defect.
  — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star, 7 Oct. 2024
• Part of the treatment is five years of tamoxifen, which can cause birth defects.
  — Julie Ma, The Cut, 26 Oct. 2017
• His lab uses mice, too, in this case to study the mechanism that causes the birth defect.
  — Kirsi Goldynia, CNN, 31 Mar. 2020
• Zika, for which there is no vaccine, can cause birth defects, fever, rash and headaches.
  — Sean Rossman, USA TODAY, 2 May 2018
• Born with a rare birth defect, his legs were amputated above the knee at age 2.
  — Janet Shamlian, CBS News, 7 Nov. 2019
• The drug caused serious birth defects and was withdrawn in 1961.
  — Adam Feuerstein and Matthew Herper, STAT, 31 July 2023
• The illness is the most common birth defect, and can make blood move too slowly or in the wrong direction.
  — Leslie Nemo, Discover Magazine, 3 Oct. 2019
• Beyond genetics, the disorder can be the result of a birth defect that affects the spinal cord or the bones of the spine.
  — Mayo Clinic News Network, chicagotribune.com, 4 Dec. 2019
• That’s because heat stress in the first trimester, such as from saunas and hot tubs, has been linked with birth defects of the brain, nervous system or spinal cord.
  — Melinda Wenner Moyer, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2020
• The drug may cause birth defects, so it should not be taken by anyone who is pregnant, Yang said.
  — Alyssa Hui, Verywell Health, 5 Dec. 2023
• But other deaths, such as those caused by disease or birth defects, rose 8%.
  — Byerik Stokstad, science.org, 5 Sep. 2024
• Were the birth defects just never noticed before, or did the virus somehow change?
  — Maggie Fox, NBC News, 28 Sep. 2017
• These drugs pose a risk to your baby in the form of birth defects and damage to internal organs—but the risk is highest in the first trimester.
  — Sarah Bradley, Parents, 22 July 2024
• The birth defect has no treatment and results in death either before birth or within the first few weeks of life.
  — Timothy Bella, Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2023
• Two of her friends bolted, leaving her alone with a cousin who has trouble walking due to a birth defect.
  — David Rising and, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Dec. 2021
• Most birth defects occur in the first trimester of pregnancy, when the organs are forming, the CDC stated.
  — Minali Nigam, CNN, 19 June 2019
• More children ages 1 to 4 die from drowning than from any other cause of death, with the exception of birth defects.
  — Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE.com, 17 Oct. 2019
• He was born with a rare birth defect called an omphalocele, which means some of his organs sit in a sac outside his body.
  — Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2023
• Abel doesn’t speak, which Patrick says is the result of a birth defect, but the relationship between father and son appears strained, to say the least.
  — Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 13 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024