congenital anomaly vs color vision deficiency

color vision deficiency vs congenital anomaly

congenital anomaly and color vision deficiency both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
congenital anomaly	Yes	No	No	No
color vision deficiency	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, color vision deficiency is a hyponym of congenital anomaly; that is, color vision deficiency is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than congenital anomaly:

congenital anomaly: a defect that is present at birth
color vision deficiency: genetic inability to distinguish differences in hue

Other hyponyms of congenital anomaly include ablepharia, albinism, anencephalia, anencephaly, ametria, color blindness, 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, tongue tie.

congenital anomaly (noun)	color vision deficiency (noun)
a defect that is present at birth	genetic inability to distinguish differences in hue

Difference between congenital anomaly and color vision deficiency

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