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differentiate between congenital and acquired disease

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Answered by amandeep14
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Major difference

A congenital disease period of occurance is during or just after birth while aquired disease occur after birth or for the rest of your life
Congenital disease can be inherited by genes or caused by environmental or external factors aquired disease is caused only by environmental or external factors .
Congenital disease are causes by genes or chromosomes mutation while aquired disease can be caused by degeneration of tissues, pathogens , cancer growth , hormones etc
Answered by Vidhi2210
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Congenital diseases : These are the diseases that people are having in them by birth or hereditary.
Examples - Cancer..

Acquired diseases : These are the diseases that people have during their lifetime. They could be acquired by some other person.
Examples : Cold,cough,fever etc.
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