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irth; pertaining to one from birth; born with one; connate; constitutinal; natural; as, a congenital deformity. See Connate.

In a congenital manner.

Congenitally united with an organ of another kind, as calyx with ovary, or stamens with petals.

Grown to congenitally.

A short, variously distorted foot; also, the deformity, usually congenital, which such a foot exhibits; talipes.

Congenital; connate; inborn. See Congenital. [Obs.] Many conclusions, of moral and intellectual truths, seem . . . to be congenite with us. Sir M. Hale.

Congenital; existing from birth. "Connate notions." South. A difference has been made by some; those diseases or conditions which are dependent on original conformation being called congenital; while the diseases of affections that may have supervened during gestation or delivery are called connate. Dunglison.…

Out of place; congenitally displaced; as, an ectopic organ.

A human being destitute of the ordinary intellectual powers, whether congenital, developmental, or accidental; commonly, a person without understanding from birth; a natural fool; a natural; an innocent. Life . . . is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. Shak.

A person of congenitally abnormal mind bordering on insanity or degeneracy.

s goose (Zoöl.), the giant fulmar of the Pacific. See Fulmar. -- Mother's mark (Med.), a congenital mark upon the body; a nævus.

One who, from deafness, either congenital or from early life, is unable to use articulate language; a deaf-mute.

A congenital malformation in which the spinal column is cleft at its lower portion, and the membranes of the spinal cord project as an elastic swelling from the gap thus formed.

An affection apparently congenital, consisting in tonic contraction and stiffness of the voluntary muscles occurring after a period of muscular inaction.