hereditary characteristic

  • 1hereditary — [[t]hɪre̱dɪtri[/t]] 1) ADJ A hereditary characteristic or illness is passed on to a child from its parents before it is born. Cystic fibrosis is the commonest fatal hereditary disease... In men, hair loss is hereditary. 2) ADJ A title or position …

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  • 2Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia — Classification and external resources Characteristic lip telangiectases. ICD 10 I …

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  • 3Hereditary equine regional dermal asthenia — (HERDA) aka hyperelastosis cutis (HC) is an inherited autosomal recessive connective tissue disorder. It develops from a homozygous recessive mutation that weakens collagen fibers that allow the skin of the animal to stay connected to the rest of …

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  • 4hereditary — [hə red′i ter΄ē] adj. [L hereditarius < hereditas: see HEREDITY] 1. a) of, or passed down by, inheritance from an ancestor to a legal heir; ancestral b) having title, right, etc. by inheritance 2. of, or passed down by, heredity; designating… …

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  • 5hereditary — ► ADJECTIVE 1) conferred by, based on, or relating to inheritance. 2) (of a characteristic or disease) able to be passed on genetically from parents to their offspring. DERIVATIVES hereditarily adverb …

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  • 6Hereditary spastic paraplegia — Infobox Disease Name = PAGENAME Caption = DiseasesDB = ICD10 = ICD10|G|11|4|g|10 ICD9 = ICD9|334.1 ICDO = OMIM = MedlinePlus = eMedicineSubj = pmr eMedicineTopic = 45 MeshID = D015419 Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia (HSP), also called Familial… …

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  • 7Hereditary stomatocytosis — Infobox Disease Name = Hereditary stomatocytosis Caption = DiseasesDB = 29710 ICD10 = ICD10|D|58|8|d|55 ICD9 = ICD9|282.8 ICDO = OMIM = 185000 OMIM mult = OMIM2|185010 MedlinePlus = eMedicineSubj = eMedicineTopic = Hereditary stomatocytosis… …

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  • 8hereditary — adjective Etymology: Middle English hereditarie, from Latin hereditarius, from hereditas Date: 15th century 1. a. genetically transmitted or transmittable from parent to offspring b. characteristic of or fostered by one s predecessors 2. a.… …

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  • 9hereditary — [hɪ rɛdɪt(ə)ri] adjective 1》 conferred by, based on, or relating to inheritance.     ↘(of a characteristic or disease) able to be passed on from parents to their offspring or descendants. 2》 Mathematics (of a set) defined such that every element… …

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  • 10evolution — evolutional, adj. evolutionally, adv. /ev euh looh sheuhn/ or, esp. Brit., /ee veuh /, n. 1. any process of formation or growth; development: the evolution of a language; the evolution of the airplane. 2. a product of such development; something… …

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