How to Use congenital in a Sentence

congenital

adjective

• The irregularity in my backbone is probably congenital.
• 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
• He was diagnosed with a congenital heart defect that could be treated, his family said, and the younger James was cleared to play again.
  — David K. Li, NBC News, 27 June 2024
• Oster said he is asked by parents of children with congenital heart disease whether those kids should get the vaccine.
  — Luke Money, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2021
• Two years after Alex died in 2014 due to congenital heart failure, his stepson, came up with an idea to honor his legacy.
  — Jonmaesha Beltran, The Arizona Republic, 15 Aug. 2022
• Among those who had given birth, about 9% of the births were preterm, 3% had babies that were small for their gestational age, and 2% had congenital anomalies.
  — Natalie Gontcharova, refinery29.com, 20 May 2021
• Most hiatal hernias are thought to be congenital, meaning you were born with the propensity to have a larger-than-needed hole in the diaphragm.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 15 Aug. 2022
• Sanderson, 16, was born with spina bifida, a congenital birth defect in which the spinal cord fails to form properly.
  — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2024
• Mabry’s ex-wife worked in a hospital, so two of their kids, including one with a congenital condition, moved in with him.
  — Michael Grabell, ProPublica, 21 Dec. 2020
• The 19-year-old underwent surgery to correct a congenital heart defect.
  — Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2023
• Injecting healthy genes into the eyes of adults with a form of congenital blindness restored their night vision.
  — Justin Beal, Harper’s Magazine , 12 Dec. 2022
• Kids at highest risk include premature infants and those younger than age 2 with chronic lung disease or congenital heart disease.
  — Sam Ogozalek, Orlando Sentinel, 31 July 2024
• Some are infectious, while others are metabolic, autoimmune, or congenital (meaning something you are born with).
  — Kumkum S. Patel, Verywell Health, 26 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024