hereditary
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- adjective
- /həˈrɛdɪˌtɛri/
- Specialized
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hereditario
- Men and women were broadly similar with respect to hereditary factors (data not shown).
- hereditary disease
- hereditary trait
- hereditary illness
He calls them hereditary factors and then social structure.
- He calls them hereditary factors and then social structure.
- And that's what showed it was DNA was the hereditary material.
- Addiction is it is hereditary as well.
- But basically it's some kind of valve in the heart, and it's a hereditary heart issue that can affect dogs.
- And what he also found is that it was hereditary, that people in their family also had this same enlarged, more dense basal ganglia.
Examples
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Or was he suffering from hereditary depression?
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Many expressed the concern that this disease could be hereditary and would be passed on to their offspring.
Academic text (2010) -
You know it can be hereditary, right?
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- No, but the condition is often hereditary.
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And I found out it's hereditary.
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Do you think that what John has is hereditary?
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Only about 5% of all breast cancers are hereditary (a result of genetic factors).
Academic text (2010) -
Jacob is a friendly 13-year-old boy with retinitis pigmentosa, a hereditary eye disorder characterized by progressive vision loss.
Academic text (2012) -
The study was part of a population-based case-control study on hereditary venous thrombosis, the Leiden Thrombophilia Study (LETS).
Academic text (1993) -
Many expressed the concern that this disease could be hereditary and would be passed on to their offspring.
Synonyms
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Relating to genes and how traits pass from parents to children
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Related to family members from earlier generations
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Relating to close relatives, like parents and children, often because of shared genes
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5.8
A feature that passes from parents to children, for example eye color and family titles
Passed from parents to children through genes
Passed from parents to children through genes
Relating to genes and how traits pass from parents to children
Relating to genes that cause differences in living things
Can be passed from parents to children by genes, like eye color
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
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A health problem parents can pass to their children through genes
- Specialized
A brain condition passed from parents that causes balance, walking, speech, and eye problems
- Specialized
An inherited nerve disease that causes gradual weakness and loss of feeling in the hands and lower legs
- Specialized
A disease passed down in families that slowly damages the nerves in the spine, causing weak muscles and walking problems
How Fixed
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Etymology
Hereditary comes from the Latin root heres, meaning 'heir', and is related to the English word heir. So a hereditary disease or trait is one that is 'passed down' from parent to child through the body's genes.