noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
congenital
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Prevalence of each congenital abnormality entity after prevention was calculated from the birth prevalence and the percentage effectiveness of prevention.
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Some preventive methods overlap but only one was considered for each congenital abnormality entity.
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Main outcome measures - Prevalence at birth and prevalence after prevention in 73 congenital abnormality types or groups.
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Anencephalus is, of course, a lethal congenital abnormality .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Dyslexia may be caused by a brain abnormality involving the sense of sight.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But this sense of isolation and estrangement was easy enough to understand, and certainly indicated no abnormality .
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Intuitive judgements of the kind listed above are undoubtedly more informative than gross judgements of abnormality .
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It is a terrible abnormality that I am determined to correct.
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The defence have said medical evidence gleaned from tests on Mr Harris' brain shows he suffers from a rare abnormality .
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There is no clear correlation between the number of injections and the degree of abnormality recorded.