congenital anomaly vs meningocele

meningocele vs congenital anomaly

congenital anomaly and meningocele both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
congenital anomaly	Yes	No	No	No
meningocele	Yes	No	No	No

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

congenital anomaly: a defect that is present at birth
meningocele: a congenital anomaly of the central nervous system in which a sac protruding from the brain or the spinal meninges contains cerebrospinal fluid (but no nerve tissue)

Other hyponyms of congenital anomaly 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, 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)	meningocele (noun)
a defect that is present at birth	a congenital anomaly of the central nervous system in which a sac protruding from the brain or the spinal meninges contains cerebrospinal fluid (but no nerve tissue)

Difference between congenital anomaly and meningocele

Words related to "meningocele"

© WordCmp.com 2024, CC-BY 4.0 / CC-BY-SA 3.0.