The phrase 'birth deformity' is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a physical condition that somebody is born with that affects their appearance or functioning. For example, "The baby was born with a severe birth deformity that left him blind in one eye."
The Vietnamese were claiming the defoliant sprays were causing cancers and birth deformities, claims that the US denied for many years, until their own veterans began to complain.
A virus that causes miscarriages and birth deformities in farm animals, though it is not known to affect humans, has been confirmed at four sheep farms in Norfolk, Suffolk and East Sussex.
Growing up, the New Zealand government refused to acknowledge that birth deformities and conditions like mine were linked to exposure to dioxins in the war, despite successive studies in the US and Australia, acknowledging causal links with exposure to the dioxins used in the war and birth deformities in children.
The birth deformities are the end result of mothers being infected with the virus earlier in their pregnancy so, with the lambing season in its early stages and calving not beginning until April, further infections are certain to be revealed.
In the coming decade, environmental problems will affect ordinary people and they deserve our attention: issues such as poor air quality causing lung cancer and heavy-metal pollution resulting in birth deformities.
The former athletes said the side effects ranged from excessive body hair and deep voices to gynecological problems and, in at least one case, birth deformities in a baby.
A new livestock disease which causes birth deformities in sheep, cattle and goats has been identified in Britain for the first time.
Although the clinical signs can be mild, risk groups, such as pregnant patients with compromised immune systems, can suffer very serious side-effects, leading to congenital birth deformities, blindness, dementia and even death.
She says one of her constituents says that "her life has been turned upside down" and she shares more experiences she has heard of birth deformities and miscarriages.
