congenital vs congenial
Definitions
adjective
- present at birth but not necessarily hereditary; acquired during fetal development
Examples
Within the first year, his group of prosectors had completed summaries on more than 1000 autopsies, carefully documenting every congenital and acquired lesion and cataloging the abnormalities.
Causes of hemoptysis in children with congenital cardiopathies, whether they undergo surgery or not, are many: extracorporeal circulation, pulmonary infections, coagulopathies, vascular disorders.
Congenital brain anomalies like microcephaly, abnormal cortical mantle formation, agenesis of the corpus callosum have been reported.
Definitions
adjective
- suitable to your needs
- (used of plants) capable of cross-fertilization or of being grafted
Examples
Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pig-weed, apple-pern, and such unsightly vegetation, which evidently found something congenial in the soil that had so early borne the black flower of civilised society, a prison.
an uncongenial atmosphere
In fact, the British flacks have used their facade of congeniality and cooperation to spread some of the most blatant falsifications of the campaign.
