In the case of slightly defective adults, such as the congenitally deaf and the congenitally blind, it is difficult to say exactly what the policy should be.
In other words, the number of deaf-mutes born where both parents are congenitally deaf and have deaf relatives is one hundred times greater than where both parents are adventitiously deaf and have no deaf relatives.
British institutions which show that on a general average at least 8% of the congenitally deaf are the offspring of such marriages.
These figures show a proportion of nearly 59% congenitally deaf persons to over 41% whose deafness is acquired.
It is only on a congenitally morbid nervous system, Emminghaus insists, that masturbation can produce any serious results.
It is interesting to learn that congenitally blind children are as sensitive to appearances as normal children, and blush as readily.
I am in agreement with this statement; the congenitally inverted may, I believe, be looked upon as a class of individuals exhibiting nervous characters which, to some extent, approximate them to persons of artistic genius.
In the girl who is congenitally predisposed to homosexuality it will continue and develop; in the majority it will be forgotten as quickly as possible, not without shame, in the presence of the normal object of sexual love.
There cannot be the slightest doubt that intellectual and artistic abilities of the highest order have frequently been associated with a congenitally inverted sexual temperament.
Among thecongenitally deaf who reported no deaf relatives, the percentage of consanguineous parentage is still high, (7.
In those cases of deafness which, in the Census returns, are ascribed to specific causes, the factor of consanguinity is still noticeable, although the percentage of the non-congenitally deaf who are the offspring of cousins never exceeds 5.
Bell has pointed out the danger of producing a deaf-mute race by the intermarriage of congenitally deaf persons,[109] and this warning should be made to apply to other congenital defects as well.
If this follows in America, it largely accounts for the high percentage of the congenitally deaf who are the offspring of cousin marriages, and especially of those who have (a) deaf relatives.
Again taking into consideration only the congenitally deaf the results are still more striking.
But when so highly abnormal an act is felt as natural we are dealing with a person who is congenitally defective so far as the finer developments of intelligence are concerned.
It may well be that a congenitally large clitoris is associated with an abnormally developed excitability of the sexual apparatus.
This kind of mouth indicates, perhaps, not so much a congenitally erotic temperament, as an abandonment to impulse.
De Marque gives a curious instance in which the chin and chest were congenitally fastened together.
Beclard and Guy-Patin have seen the spleen congenitally misplaced on the right side and the liver on the left; Borellus and Bartholinus with others have observed misplacement of the spleen.
It is not only in those who are congenitally deficient in any of the senses that the remarkable examples of compensation are seen, but sometimes late in life these are developed.
Schede reports two cases of congenitally bald children of a peasant woman (a boy of thirteen and a girl of six months).
The left leg was shorter than the right and congenitally smaller; the mammae were of normal dimensions.
There were no ovaries and the uterus was congenitally imperfect.
Philib reports a case in which mutism, almost simulating that of one congenitally deaf, was due to congenital adhesions of the tongue to the floor of the buccal cavity.
The authors know of a student of a prominent New York University who is congenitally deficient in external ears, yet his hearing is acute.
Some persons are congenitally predisposed to a one-sided development; and in some persons there occurs a phenomenally early development of certain particular talents.
Such inclinations often appear, indeed, in congenitally tainted or weak-minded individuals; but he considers that we have no right to speak of the perverse impulse as being itself congenital.
There has been a process of selection of individuals who slightly deviate congenitally from the normal average and are, correspondingly, slightly inapt for normal life.
On the other hand, if acquired characters are ever in any degree transmitted, it is easy to understand how so frequently repeated an action should have become, in numberless generations of dogs, congenitally automatic.
It is, however, urged that this pictorial order natural to deaf-mutes is not natural to the congenitally blind who are not deaf-mute, among whom it is found to be rhythmical.
The facial expressions and gestures of the congenitally blind are worthy of attention.
Over and over again it has been shown that neither the congenitally blind nor those whose vision has become defective have any better sense of touch than the average person.
When both parents arecongenitally deaf but neither has deaf relatives, the percentages are 7.
When one or both parents are congenitally deaf, the percentage of marriages resulting in deaf offspring is 13.
For the purposes of our inquiry, let us think of the congenitally deaf as divided into three great classes in respect to their family relations: 1.
The Celt, on the other hand, iscongenitally easy-going and unambitious.
Canny" is undoubtedly the best of all adjectives to apply to the Scotch--they are congenitally thrifty and industrious.
Aside from prisoners who are congenitally scarred in unusual degree, closely-allied parallels are to be drawn as between thousands of prisoners and millions of freemen.
These congenitally degenerated beings (ab utero) can hardly be distinguished from those having direct heredity.
It is somewhat doubtful in what sense the term 'congenitally blind' is used, but it probably means born blind as the result of transmitted disuse, rather than blind as the result of fortuitous variation.
At first those becoming so modified that they can do without the use of their eyes would greatly preponderate over those 'congenitally blind.
There was, of course, a large residuum too hopelessly perverted, too congenitally deformed, to have the power of leading a good life, however assisted.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "congenitally" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: internally; intrinsically; inwardly; naturally; originally
