Nadiya Hussain

As a child my life felt like an adventure, because my dad is such a fun guy. I had a brother and sister who were in and out of hospital a lot – one had a congenital heart problem and the other had a cleft palate. But my parents never stopped smiling.

British Chef

Nick Cassavetes

My daughter, when she was a week old, was diagnosed with congenital heart disease. For the past thirteen years, she's had four major heart surgeries. She's a candidate for - and must have - heart replacement surgery in order to have a long life.

American Actor

H. L. Mencken

Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.

American Writer

Greg Olsen

In 2012, I had a son born with very severe congenital heart defect that was life-threatening and required him to go through a series of open-heart surgeries, as young as two days old, and subsequent other procedures.

American Football Player

Charles Baudelaire

France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.

French Poet

Ernest Hemingway

A writer of fiction is really... a congenital liar who invents from his own knowledge or that of other men.

American Novelist

Molly Ivins

And the funny thing is, I've always been an optimist - it's practically a congenital disorder with me.

American Journalist

Kellyanne Conway

Women are still congenitally Democratic - and I'm the Republican pollster saying that.

American Businesswoman

Susan Collins

American Politician

Jean Kerr

American Playwright

Usually seen in medical discussions describing health conditions from birth.

Medical Context

While often genetic, it can also refer to conditions caused by the environment pre-birth.

Not Always Genetic

Conditions described as congenital are typically permanent but may not always affect life negatively.

Permanent Nature

Used to describe ingrained personality traits or long-term habits, not just medical aspects.

Non-medical Traits

Sometimes implies that certain aspects of a person's character are unchangeable.

Emotional Implication

Be careful as calling someone's traits congenital may suggest they can't change, possibly offending them.

Potential Offense

 their goal was simply to help her be as independent as possible so that she could fulfill her potential, however that looked for her. But the culture at large does not take this open attitude about disabilities. We call congenital differences "birth defects," as though human beings were objects on a factory line.

"Good" and "bad" are...

 She shows that people who are born with sight and people who are congenitally blind do this when they win at a physical competition. So when they cross the finish line and they've won, it doesn't matter if they've never seen anyone do it. They do this. So the arms up in the V, the chin is slightly lifted.

Your body language may...

 who was born a boy, raised a boy, had a girlfriend, had sex with his girlfriend, had a life as a guy, and had just found out that he had ovaries and a uterus inside. What he had was an extreme form of a condition called congenital adrenal hyperplasia. He had XX chromosomes,

Alice Dreger: Is anatomy...

 people who are congenitally blind do this when they win at a physical competition so when they cross the finish line and they've won it doesn't matter if they've never seen anyone do it they do this so the arms up in the V the chin is slightly lifted what do we

Your body language...

 Arm amputation is usually caused by trauma, with things like industrial accidents, motor vehicle collisions or, very poignantly, war. There are also some children who are born without arms, called congenital limb deficiency. Unfortunately, we don't do great

Todd Kuiken: A...

 with many new ones bred purely for appearance. Sadly, while all dog breeds are the product of artificial selection, some are healthier than others. Many of these aesthetic characteristics come with congenital health problems,

A brief history of dogs...

 The whites that you see in the middle of his pupils are congenital cataracts, so opacities of the lens. In our eyes, the lens is clear, but in this child, the lens has become opaque, and therefore he can't see the world.

Pawan Sinha on how...

 Base editors have also been used in animals to reverse the consequence of tyrosinemia, beta thalassemia, muscular dystrophy, phenylketonuria, a congenital deafness and a type of cardiovascular disease --

Can we cure genetic...

 it's also true I think it's false you go false as it congenital liar yes I think it's fun as you don't want to die no stress in my life at all and you lie through life constantly and he's hoping

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 and it goes back into the body. We save her life, and get her safely to the operating room. Here's the these disorders -- what is known is congenital diaphragmatic hernia --

Congenital