birth defect vs oxycephaly

oxycephaly vs birth defect

birth defect and oxycephaly both are nouns.

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

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

birth defect: a defect that is present at birth
oxycephaly: 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, acrocephaly, 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)	oxycephaly (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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