HEREDITARY
\hɪɹˈɛdɪtəɹi], \hɪɹˈɛdɪtəɹi], \h_ɪ_ɹ_ˈɛ_d_ɪ_t_ə_ɹ_i]\
Definitions of HEREDITARY
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Applied to conditions and diseases transmitted by ancestors.
By William R. Warner
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Descending by inheritance: transmitted from parents to their offspring.
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HEREDITARILY.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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An epithet given to diseases, communicated from progenitors. Such diseases may exist at birth; or they may supervene at a more or less advanced period of existence. Hereditary diseases, Morbi hereditarii, (F.) Maladies hereditaires, often prevail amongst several members of a family, or are family diseases or complaints.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Possessed or claimed by right of inheritance; descending by inheritance.
By Thomas Sheridan
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