birth defect vs acrocephaly

acrocephaly vs birth defect

birth defect and acrocephaly both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
birth defect	Yes	No	No	No
acrocephaly	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, acrocephaly is a hyponym of birth defect; that is, acrocephaly is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than birth defect:

birth defect: a defect that is present at birth
acrocephaly: a congenital abnormality of the skull; the top of the skull assumes a cone shape

Other hyponyms of birth defect include 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, 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.

birth defect (noun)	acrocephaly (noun)
a defect that is present at birth	a congenital abnormality of the skull; the top of the skull assumes a cone shape

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