inherited disease
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- noun
- /ɪnˈhɛrɪtɪd dɪˈziːz/
- Specialized
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enfermedad hereditaria
- Gene therapy offers the promise of curing inherited disease, but the most notable successes have been with respect to single-gene disorders, which usually correspond with rare diseases.
- cause inherited diseases
- cure inherited diseases
- rare inherited diseases
And they have been told that these are genetically inherited diseases, right?
- And they have been told that these are genetically inherited diseases, right?
Examples
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Several factors contribute to the wide prevalence of genetic disorders in the region, including the high rate of consanguinity, a social trend to have more children until menopause, selective factors favoring inherited disease characteristics, and the lack of public awareness towards the early recognition and prevention of inherited diseases.
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"These are not just hypothetical fears," says Nancy Wexler, a clinical psychologist at Columbia University in New York City who has studied families that carry inherited disease.
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And they have been told that these are genetically inherited diseases, right?
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Will these new technologies only be available to the wealthy, resulting in a lower class that will still suffer from inherited diseases and disabilities?
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Will the mapping of genes give us direction in the search for cures to inherited diseases?
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Presumably, as DNA investigation and manipulation improve, it may be possible to breed out inherited diseases?
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This investigation is best undertaken in centers with expertise in the diagnosis and management of inherited diseases that cause premature sudden death.
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We don't prevent other people from marrying or deny them their reproductive rights based on increased odds of passing along a genetic problem or inherited disease.
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Katie has cystic fibrosis, an inherited disease that clogs the lungs with mucus.
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Nothing can really prepare you for the discovery that your children have a potentially fatal inherited disease.
Synonyms
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A health problem caused by a change in a person's genes that can be passed from parents
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A health problem caused by changes in a person's genes that parents pass on
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A health problem from a change in someone's genes often passed from parents
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A change in a person's genes that causes a disease
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A disease passed from parents to children through genes
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A health problem parents can pass to their children through genes
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A disease parents pass to their children in their genes
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a disease passed from parents to offspring through genes' is directly compositional from 'inherited' (passed genetically) and 'disease' (a health condition). This adjective+noun combination follows a common, cross-linguistic pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand the term.
Etymology
Inherited disease uses the word inherited, which means 'passed from parents to children', and the word disease, which means 'a health problem'. So it refers to a health problem that is passed down in a family's genes.