(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.
Scaphocephaly
Definition:
(n.) A deformed condition of the skull, in which the vault is narrow, elongated, and more or less boat-shaped.
Example Sentences:
(1) We report a 2-year-old Moslem Arab boy with 28 of the 32 originally described features of this syndrome and in addition with hyperelastic joints, hypospadias and scaphocephaly which were not previously described in association with the Kabuki make-up syndrome.
(2) The other congenital deformities included scaphocephaly, somewhat low-set ears, accessory tragi, a high arched palate, and funnel chest.
(3) Coronal craniostenosis seems to be a dominant autosomal character, when scaphocephaly is more often sporadic; for both, an autosomal dominant inheritance is not excluded for some pedigrees.
(4) Eight infants had scaphocephaly with prominent occipital shelving.
(5) Two children from a small Amerindian community presented with profound retardation, initial hypotonia progressing to hypertonia, scaphocephaly, a prominent occiput, poor postnatal head growth, and additional minor anomalies.
(6) Premature fusion of the sagittal and lambdoid suture led to scaphocephaly.
(7) Four illustrative cases of scaphocephaly, all treated with midline linear craniectomy, with uneventful postoperative follow-up periods of more than 4 years, are reported.
(8) We describe two female siblings with similar clinical features consisting of hydrocephalus, scaphocephaly, hypotonia, mongoloid eye slant, blepharophimosis, micrognathia, supernumerary mouth frenula and mental retardation.
(9) Finally, the authors certify the frequency and the seriousness of ocular repercussion, even in so called benign types of cranio-stenoses, such as plagiocephaly, trigonocephaly, and scaphocephaly.
(10) The authors report, concerning 115 cas of scaphocephaly, the clinical (spheno., lepto., bathmo., clino., the kinds without dolichocephaly) radiological characteristics (temporal curve without dolichocephaly), orbito-sphenoidal obliquity regressing after treatment).
(11) Besides, two patients with scaphocephaly and one with plagiocephaly showed low perfusion area in unilateral cerebral hemisphere.
(12) Postoperatively, only 14.5% had minor clinical signs, which were mostly not in relation to the former scaphocephaly.
(13) A series of 50 consecutive patients with scaphocephaly treated by a new operation are reported, and the results are reviewed in detail.
(14) We report the clinical features and neurosurgical management of a 9-month-old girl with cranioectodermal dysplasia and scaphocephaly.
(15) The clinical manifestations of MPS are frequently dwarfism, scaphocephaly, grotesque facial features with snub nose, hypertelorism, macroglossia and dental anomalies.
(16) In addition to the effect on the neurocranium, the extended craniectomies add to normalization of the base of the skull (in contrast to the natural history of scaphocephaly).
(17) A technique for the correction of scaphocephaly is described.
(18) On the cranial deformities, 7 cases of scaphocephaly, 4 cases of oxycephaly and 3 cases of acrocephaly were diagnosed.
(19) To the median sagittal craniectomy, one can add retrocoronal, pre lambdoid or metopic craniectomies according to the type of scaphocephaly.
(20) This article reports a retrospective quantitative (cephalic index) evaluation of the effect that two different operations for treatment of scaphocephaly secondary to sagittal synostosis have on cranial shape.