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UKHereditary disease
/hɪɹˈɛdɪtəɹi dɪzˈiːz/
/hɪɹˈɛdətˌɛɹi dɪzˈiːz/Hereditary disease
[NOUN]1
a medical condition or disorder that is passed down from one generation to another through genes or genetic inheritance
Examples
1. Dimitris suffers from a very rare disease, cystic fibrosis, which is the deadliest hereditary disease of the white race.
2. Dr. Bennett created a gene therapy for leber congenital amaurosis, LCA, which is an hereditary disease that causes early onset and progressive vision loss.
3. So I suffer, I could not really forget that, I suffer from three chronic diseases, and first I'm a hemophiliac, Hemophilia is a hereditary disease, you have from birth, and a clotting problem.
4. The second time, however, is still to come, to save Rob from a hereditary disease that's destroying his kidneys, and forced him, last August, to join 100,000 other Americans on a waiting list for a kidney from a deceased donor.
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