congenital defect vs tongue tie

tongue tie vs congenital defect

congenital defect and tongue tie both are nouns.

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

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

congenital defect: 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 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, meningocele, myelomeningocele, plagiocephaly, polysomy, hermaphrodism, hermaphroditism, pseudohermaphroditism, scaphocephaly, congenital heart defect, rachischisis, schistorrhachis, spina bifida, spinocerebellar disorder, hyperdactyly, polydactyly, syndactylism, syndactyly, ankyloglossia.

congenital defect (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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