congenital defect vs color vision deficiency

color vision deficiency vs congenital defect

congenital defect and color vision deficiency both are nouns.

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

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

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

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

Difference between congenital defect and color vision deficiency

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