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The body, the paediatric and congenital cardiac services review, was asked to settle a question at the centre of the Bristol tragedy, and which has been raised many times over the years: how many operations should be carried out by a children's heart unit each year for the surgeons to be expert in the complex techniques?
"When you get white hair people patronise you, treat you as if you are a congenital idiot, start calling you we," rails the 82-year-old actor Dudley Sutton before sipping his Red Bull and making a start on a packet of digestives.
Indeed, golf surely proves our second heresy rather convincingly, as do billiards, pool and snooker (one overweight Canadian snooker player truly proof that snooker is for all shapes and sizes needed to drink enormous amounts of beer during matchplay in order to control a congenital hand tremor).But the virtues of golf and snooker, while making them sports for all-comers, are not complete.
Muttiah Muralitharan, a Sri Lankan whose 800 Test wickets may never be exceeded, imparts fizz on the ball, in part, due to a congenital arm defect.
Hence men have better motor abilities or, in layman's terms, are better co-ordinated than women.Dr Verma's other main finding is that most of these differences are not congenital.
An international team of scientists, led by a group at the University of Pennsylvania, used a genetically engineered virus to introduce the correct version of a gene called RPE65 into six people suffering from a retinal disease known as Leber's congenital amaurosis.
In particular, women who use it tend to be older than those who conceive naturally, and that can lead to congenital problems in their children.
A congenital defect had left him with a kink in his arm; he was unable to straighten his elbow fully.
From these figures Dr Pharoah calculates that the risk of congenital anomaly in a surviving twin following the early loss of its sibling is 2.4 times higher than if the sibling survives and almost four times higher than that of true singletons, who had the womb all to themselves from day one.
He recently grilled Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, in public about the unintended consequences of America's Dodd-Frank reforms.Mr Dimon's assertiveness is explained by both congenital self-confidence and the success of his firm.
But the internet connection was glacial (hence, along with my congenital laziness, the recent paucity of blog postings).
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The adjective "congenital " primarily functions to modify nouns , indicating that a particular condition, trait, or characteristic is present from birth. Ludwig's examples demonstrate its use in phrases like "congenital heart defect" or "congenital arm defect".
Expression frequency: Very common
