congenital abnormality vs tongue tie

tongue tie vs congenital abnormality

congenital abnormality and tongue tie both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
congenital abnormality	Yes	No	No	No
tongue tie	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, tongue tie is a hyponym of congenital abnormality; that is, tongue tie is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than congenital abnormality:

congenital abnormality: a defect that is present at birth
tongue tie: a congenital anomaly in which the mucous membrane under the tongue is too short limiting the mobility of the tongue

Other hyponyms of congenital abnormality 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, 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.

congenital abnormality (noun)	tongue tie (noun)
a defect that is present at birth	a congenital anomaly in which the mucous membrane under the tongue is too short limiting the mobility of the tongue

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