What's the difference between congenial and congenital?

Congenial


Definition:

  • (a.) Partaking of the same nature; allied by natural characteristics; kindred; sympathetic.
  • (a.) Naturally adapted; suited to the disposition.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "I find it very congenial to live in the natural beauty of the place I have in Connecticut.
  • (2) Yes, Scottish leader Ruth Davidson was congenial and popular, but she was still, you know, a Tory.
  • (3) They are "very congenial, caring people," said Pieters-James.
  • (4) Additionally, it is suggested that the conditioning analysis of tolerance is congenial with a current view of habituation, and there may be a similar associative basis for the response decrement to both endogenous and exogenous iterative stimulation.
  • (5) Paget dramatized this clear distinction between the intrinsic properties of the cancer cell and the properties of the host when he expanded on the analogy between tumors and plants: "When a plant goes to seed, its seeds are carried in all directions; but they can only live and grow if they fall on congenial soil."
  • (6) The active transport system is congenial to fluorescine - Km = 4-10(-5) M, which renders even small amounts of this substance to be quickly removed from the milieu.
  • (7) The medium mountain ranges have a congenial climate in connection with its abundant forests.
  • (8) She said she was enjoying the kindness and congeniality of the crowd, an antidote, she said, to the negativity of the last 18 months.
  • (9) Physical and mental activity, good health, adequate means, well considered accommodation, an absorbing interest, congenial company and a philosophy which encompasses mortality are among the assets and attitudes which may promote successful retirement.
  • (10) Another showing for Sandra Bullock film Miss Congeniality on Channel Five had 1.2 million viewers and a 5% share between 9pm and 11.10pm.
  • (11) Face set with the look of determined congeniality, glass of orange juice in hand, Young (who generally cares so little about "promotion" that he didn't bother to include any songs from the-then new On the Beach in Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's 74 tour repertoire) braced himself to face the press, a few at a time in manager Elliot Roberts' Sunset Strip office, a fortnight before the release of Tonight's the Night .
  • (12) He said mixed classrooms were “far more congenial”, and he had “much preferred” being head of a school where children of both sexes were taught.
  • (13) The bloody creeks of the Niger delta may yet seem strangely congenial.
  • (14) The well-known autosomal-recessive inheritance of the disease was masked by a pseudodominant appearance, reflecting the striking frequency of congenial marriages.
  • (15) In person, in private, he displays a congenial persona not always evident at the dispatch box.
  • (16) In perfectly bucolic and culturally congenial surroundings, Hawthorne's imagination took flight and his pen dashed over the page, producing 21 stories, many of which, including "Rappaccini's Daughter", would be collected in 1846 as Mosses from an Old Manse.
  • (17) A very congenial silence for the CBI and other business lobby groups, who can urge ministers to cut benefits for the poor harder and faster, knowing their members are still getting their bungs.
  • (18) Even colleagues who disagree violently with his view of the world concede that Wolfowitz was far more congenial than the usual Washington apparatchik.
  • (19) These achievement-congenial conditions characterize entrepreneurial business and, among those occupations traditionally filled by women, teaching.
  • (20) On a personal level, Neuberger is giving up a comfortable berth at the law courts in the Strand, where he can choose to sit with the most congenial of his many fellow judges, in exchange for a much smaller 12-judge court in Westminster, physically isolated from the rest of the judiciary and where tensions are never far below the surface.

Congenital


Definition:

  • (a.) Existing at, or dating from, birth; pertaining to one from birth; born with one; connate; constitutional; natural; as, a congenital deformity. See Connate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The origin of the aorta and pulmonary artery from the right ventricle is a complicated and little studied congenital cardiac malformation.
  • (2) Cor triatriatum (CT) is a rare congenital defect, surgically correctable, and sometimes difficult to diagnose by cardiac catheterization.
  • (3) The position of the cyst supports the theory that branchial cysts are congenital in origin.
  • (4) In addition, congenital anemias such as sickle cell disease can impact on the health of the mother and fetus.
  • (5) A case of congenital subglottic fibroma is presented.
  • (6) Congenitally deficient plasmas were used as the substrate for the measurement of procoagulant activities in a one-stage clotting assay.
  • (7) Attempts to eliminate congenital dislocation of the hip by detecting it early have not been completely successful.
  • (8) Instead of later renal failure and, of course, mental retardation, it was the histological features of the fetus eyes which permit to diagnose and exhibit both congenital cataract and irido-corneal angle dysgenesis.
  • (9) In the interim, sonographic studies during pregnancy in women at risk for AIDS may be helpful in identifying fetal intrauterine growth retardation and may help raise our level of suspicion for congenital AIDS.
  • (10) After early repair of congenital cardiovascular defects, such as coarctation of the aorta, late stenosis may become a problem.
  • (11) This study examines the morphology of sporadic congenital microphthalmia in 1-day-old chicks, with particular emphasis on the neural retina.
  • (12) It is usually associated with a left superior caval vein draining into the coronary sinus and is frequently part of a complex congenital malformation of the heart.
  • (13) Aplasia of the trachea associated with multiple congenital anomalies is described in a stillborn male foetus with single umbilical artery.
  • (14) Neuromuscular disorders in small animals include a diverse group of congenital and acquired diseases.
  • (15) Urologic evaluation of all patients with congenital scoliosis is recommended; however, diagnostic ultrasonographic evaluations of the urinary tract have proven to be an acceptable alternative as an initial screening modality.
  • (16) These examinations are used in the evaluation of congenital heart disease for preoperative planning and postoperative evaluation.
  • (17) Further management of the congenital cases was based on the experience that children outgrow this disorder; periodic dilatation may augment the natural process.
  • (18) Congenital defect of a cervical pedicle produces a rare clinical syndrome with a characteristic X-ray picture associated with vague clinical signs often accentuated after trauma.
  • (19) We document four patients, including two sibs, with asphyxiating thoracic dystrophy and mild congenital hydrocephalus.
  • (20) A case of mixed congenital abnormalities in a fetus demonstrated ultrasonographically during the second trimester of pregnancy in an uncontrolled insulin-dependent diabetic mother is presented.