hereditary
Example Sentences
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But it excludes people with hereditary hair loss because that does not threaten someone's life, health minister Jeong Eun-kyeong explained at the meeting on Tuesday.
From BBC
"Identifying a hereditary mutation allows us to implement lifelong clinical monitoring and early intervention, significantly improving survival rates," he explains.
From Science Daily
“Between us, my dad has done some business with Gene’s dad and thinks he’s a horrible human being. So…maybe it’s hereditary. In his DNA, or something.”
From Literature
The simile is arresting: modern European proponents of welfare-state liberalism likened to a dying class of 19th-century hereditary nobles, confident in their rightness and desperate to rest.
The drug prevents attacks of hereditary angioedema, which causes recurrent and severe swelling of body parts.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
