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• ablepharia go
  a congenital absence of eyelids (partial or complete)
  
• albinism go
  the congenital absence of pigmentation in the eyes and skin and hair
  
• anencephaly, anencephalia go
  a defect in brain development resulting in small or missing brain hemispheres
  
• ametria go
  congenital absence of the uterus
  
• color blindness, colour blindness, color vision deficiency, colour vision deficiency go
  genetic inability to distinguish differences in hue
  
• epispadias go
  a congenital abnormality in males in which the urethra is on the upper surface of the penis
  
• clinocephaly, clinocephalism go
  a congenital defect in which the top of the head is depressed (concave instead of convex)
  
• clinodactyly go
  a congenital defect in which one or more toes or fingers are abnormally positioned
  
• macroglossia go
  a congenital disorder characterized by an abnormally large tongue
  
• mongolism, mongolianism, Down's syndrome, Down syndrome, trisomy 21 go
  a congenital disorder caused by having an extra 21st chromosome
  
• oxycephaly, acrocephaly go
  a congenital abnormality of the skull
  
• cleft lip, harelip, cheiloschisis go
  a congenital cleft in the middle of the upper lip
  
• cleft palate go
  a congenital fissure of the hard palate
  
• amelia go
  congenital absence of an arm or leg
  
• meromelia go
  congenital absence of part of an arm or leg
  
• encephalocele go
  protrusion of brain tissue through a congenital fissure in the skull
  
• meningocele go
  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)
  
• myelomeningocele go
  a congenital defect of the central nervous system in which a sac containing part of the spinal cord and its meninges protrude through a gap in the vertebral column
  
• plagiocephaly go
  congenital malformation of the skull in which the main axis of the skull is oblique
  
• polysomy go
  congenital defect of having one or more extra chromosomes in somatic cells
  
• hermaphroditism, hermaphrodism go
  congenital condition in which external genitalia and internal sex organs have both male and female characteristics
  
• pseudohermaphroditism go
  congenital condition in which a person has external genitalia of one sex and internal sex organs of the other sex
  
• scaphocephaly go
  congenital malformation of the skull which is long and narrow
  
• congenital heart defect go
  a birth defect involving the heart
  
• spina bifida, rachischisis, schistorrhachis go
  a not uncommon congenital defect in which a vertebra is malformed
  
• spinocerebellar disorder go
  any of several congenital disorders marked by degeneration of the cerebellum and spinal cord resulting in spasticity and ataxia
  
• polydactyly, hyperdactyly go
  birth defect characterized by the presence of more than the normal number of fingers or toes
  
• syndactyly, syndactylism go
  birth defect in which there is partial or total webbing connecting two or more fingers or toes
  
• tongue tie, ankyloglossia go
  a congenital anomaly in which the mucous membrane under the tongue is too short limiting the mobility of the tongue