congenital defect vs meningocele

meningocele vs congenital defect

congenital defect and meningocele both are nouns.

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

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

congenital defect: 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 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, 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 defect (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)

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