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Definition of Hereditary

1. Adjective. Occurring among members of a family usually by heredity. "Genetically transmitted features"

2. Adjective. Inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent. "Transmissible tradition"

Definition of Hereditary

1. a. Descended, or capable of descending, from an ancestor to an heir at law; received or passing by inheritance, or that must pass by inheritance; as, an hereditary estate or crown.

Definition of Hereditary

1. Adjective. which is passed on as inheritance, by last will or intestate ¹

2. Adjective. (of a title, honor or right) legally granted to somebody's descendant after that person's death. ¹

3. Adjective. (of a person) holding a legally hereditary title or rank ¹

4. Adjective. (of a disease or trait) passed from a parent to offspring in the genes ¹

5. Noun. A hereditary ruler; a hereditary peer in the House of Lords. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hereditary

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Hereditary

1. Transferred via genes from parent to child. (16 Dec 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hereditary

hereby heredes herediatry spinal ataxia hereditabilities hereditability hereditable hereditably hereditament hereditaments hereditarian

hereditarianism hereditarians hereditaries hereditarily hereditariness hereditary (current term) hereditary amyloidosis hereditary angio oedema hereditary angioedema hereditary angioneurotic oedema

hereditary areflexic dystasia hereditary ataxia hereditary benign intraepithelial dyskeratosis hereditary cerebellar ataxia hereditary chorea hereditary condition hereditary coproporphyria hereditary deforming chondrodystrophy hereditary disease

Literary usage of Hereditary

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"And this proposition it will be the business of this chapter to prove, in all its branches; first, that the crown is hereditary; secondly, ..."

2. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"Familial and hereditary ataxia. In: Syst. Med. ... (b) hereditary Cerebellar Ataxia (Marie; Sanger Brown) This disease is closely related to the preceding ..."

3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1886)
"Psychical Character of hereditary Paranoiacs. ... A hereditary paranoiac may be a scientist, a noble lawyer, a great artist, a mathematician, a politician, ..."

4. The Cell; Outlines of General Anatomy and Physiology: Outlines of General by Oscar Hertwig, Henry Johnstone Campbell (1895)
"The equivalence of the male and female hereditary masses. 2. The equal distribution of the multiplying hereditary mass upon the cells, which are derived ..."

5. Report by American Genetic Association (1907)
"Indeed the fact, that the enzymes of the germ cells and particularly of the egg determine hereditary characters, points the way to the modification of ..."

6. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1902)
"The Aulic Council and the Innsbruck Chamber had a less direct bearing on the Empire than on the hereditary dominions, for the whole of which the Chamber ..."

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