How to Use congenital in a Sentence

congenital

adjective

• The irregularity in my backbone is probably congenital.
• The best chance of a good outcome, Darragh said, is to have a congenital heart team complete the transplant.
  — Holly V. Hays, Indianapolis Star, 25 Dec. 2019
• There have since been high rates of thyroid cancer and birth defects, including congenital cataracts.
  — Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2020
• At age 5, Adonis was diagnosed with a rare form of congenital glaucoma and, as a result, went blind.
  — Maria Polletta, azcentral, 13 Jan. 2020
• Brittany had become hooked after losing her grandmother and a baby—to a rare congenital condition—within a year.
  — Elizabeth Flock, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2020
• In that story, a woman delivering twins faced severe complications at birth and the second twin was born with the congenital disorder.
  — Dave Brooks, Billboard, 2 Feb. 2020
• Upwards of 10% of the congenital heart disease patients who receive surgery at Riley are 18 and older.
  — Holly V. Hays, Indianapolis Star, 25 Dec. 2019
• 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
• 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
• Guilt is a congenital part of being a woman; we are born with it.
  — Vicky Spratt, refinery29.com, 6 Apr. 2020
• 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
• Care for congenital heart defects has advanced over the years, and the future looks even brighter.
  — Mark Gurarie, Verywell Health, 18 Sep. 2024
• 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
• But when Gilster’s mare Southern Classic dropped her second foal in April of 2017, the newborn had a congenital cataract in its right eye.
  — Jason Frakes, The Courier-Journal, 2 Sep. 2020
• 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
• Eva was born with Down syndrome and a congenital heart defect.
  — Carissa Tozzi, House Beautiful, 30 June 2020
• 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
• Haven, a 3-year-old with a congenital heart condition, just wants a playset.
  — al, 19 Aug. 2020
• 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
• Most cases of cerebral palsy are congenital, meaning that you are born with the condition.
  — Heidi Cope, Health, 13 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 31 Dec 2024