HEREDITARY MUTATION

Meaning of HEREDITARY MUTATION in English

A gene change that occurs in a germ cell (an egg or sperm) to become incorporated in every cell in the body. Hereditary mutations (also called germline mutations) play a role in cancer as, for example, the eye tumor retinoblastoma and Wilms' tumor of the kidney.

English dictionary of medicine. Английский словарь медицины. 2012

HEREDITARY MUTATION — A gene change in the body's reproductive cells (egg or sperm) that becomes incorporated into the DNA of every cell …
NCI English Dictionary of Cancer Terms
MUTATION — n mutation (1. change; 2. [Biol.])
Interlingua English vocab
MUTATION — noun Date: 14th century a significant and basic alteration ; change , umlaut , 3. a relatively permanent change in …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
HEREDITARY — adjective Etymology: Middle English hereditarie, from Latin hereditarius, from hereditas Date: 15th century 1. genetically transmitted or transmittable from parent …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
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Английский словарь Британика
MUTATION — myüˈtāshən noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English mutacioun, from Middle French mutation, from Latin mutation-, mutatio, from mutatus + …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
HEREDITARY — hə̇ˈredəˌterē, -ri also heˈ- adjective Etymology: Latin hereditarius, from hereditas inheritance + -arius -ary — more at heredity 1. a. …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
MUTATION — (n.) The result of the above process; a suddenly produced variation.
Английский словарь Webster
MUTATION — (n.) As now employed (first by de Vries), a sudden variation (the offspring differing from its parents in some well-marked …
Английский словарь Webster
MUTATION — (n.) Gradual definitely tending variation, such as may be observed in a group of organisms in the fossils of successive …
Английский словарь Webster
MUTATION — (n.) Change; alteration, either in form or qualities.
Английский словарь Webster
HEREDITARY — (a.) Transmitted, or capable of being transmitted, as a constitutional quality or condition from a parent to a child; as, …
Английский словарь Webster
HEREDITARY — (a.) Descended, or capable of descending, from an ancestor to an heir at law; received or passing by inheritance, or …
Английский словарь Webster
HEREDITARY — ( a. ) Transmitted, or capable of being transmitted, as a constitutional quality or condition from a parent to a …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
HEREDITARY — ( a. ) Descended, or capable of descending, from an ancestor to an heir at law; received or passing by …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
MUTATION — — mutational , adj. — mutationally , adv. /myooh tay"sheuhn/ , n. 1. Biol. a. a sudden departure from the …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
HEREDITARY — — hereditarily /hi red'i tair"euh lee, -red"i ter'-/ , adv. — hereditariness , n. /heuh red"i ter'ee/ , adj. 1. …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
HEREDITARY — adj. passed down genetically, transferred naturally from parent to child; pertaining to an inheritance
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
MUTATION — noun Date: 14th century 1. : a significant and basic alteration : change 2. : umlaut 3. a. : a …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
HEREDITARY — adjective Etymology: Middle English hereditarie, from Latin hereditarius, from hereditas Date: 15th century 1. a. : genetically transmitted or transmittable …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
MUTATION — noun change; alteration, either in form or qualities. 2. mutation ·add. ·noun the result of the above process; a suddenly …
Webster English vocab
HEREDITARY — adj transmitted, or capable of being transmitted, as a constitutional quality or condition from a parent to a child; as, …
Webster English vocab
HEREDITARY — [ hɪ'rɛdɪt(ə)ri ] ■ adjective 1》 conferred by, based on, or relating to inheritance. ↘(of a characteristic or disease) able …
Concise Oxford English vocab
MUTATION — [mu.ta.tion] n (14c) 1: a significant and basic alteration: change 2: umlaut 3 a: a relatively permanent change in hereditary …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
HEREDITARY — [he.red.i.tary] adj [L hereditarius, fr. hereditas] (15c) 1 a: genetically transmitted or transmittable from parent to offspring b: characteristic of …
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Britannica English vocabulary
MUTATION — mutation BrE AmE mju ˈteɪʃ ə n ▷ mutation|s z
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
HEREDITARY — hereditar|y BrE AmE hə ˈred ət‿ ə r |i hɪ-, he-, -ˈ•ɪt‿ AmE \ -ə ter |i ▷ hereditar|iness i …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
MUTATION — / mjuːˈteɪʃn; NAmE / noun 1. [ U , C ] ( biology ) a process in which the genetic …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
HEREDITARY — / həˈredɪtri; NAmE -teri/ adjective 1. ( especially of illnesses ) given to a child by its parents before it …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
HEREDITARY — he ‧ red ‧ i ‧ ta ‧ ry /həˈredət ə ri, hɪˈredət ə ri $ -teri/ BrE AmE adjective …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
HEREDITARY — adj. 1 (of disease, instinct, etc.) able to be passed down from one generation to another. 2 a descending by …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
HEREDITARY — adj. 1 (of disease, instinct, etc.) able to be passed down from one generation to another. 2 a descending by …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
HEREDITARY — adj.1 (of disease, instinct, etc.) able to be passed down from one generation to another. 2 a descending by inheritance. …
Oxford English vocab
HEREDITARY — 1. A hereditary characteristic or illness is passed on to a child from its parents before it is born. In …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
HEREDITARY — 1. A ~ characteristic or illness is passed on to a child from its parents before it is born. In …
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
MUTATION — noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE deleterious ▪ Now, suppose that deleterious mutations reduce survival below this optimal value. ▪ …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
HEREDITARY — adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a genetic/hereditary condition (= that is passed from parent to child ) ▪ The disease …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
MUTATION — [noun] [U]Mutation is the way in which genes change and produce permanent differences.It is well-known that radiation can cause mutation.A …
Cambridge English vocab
HEREDITARY — [adjective] [not gradable] - (of characteristics or diseases) able to be given through the genes of a parent to a …
Cambridge English vocab
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Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
HEREDITARY — Synonyms and related words : ancestral, atavistic, bequeathed, bodily, born, coeval, congenital, connatal, connate, connatural, constitutional, genetic, genic, handed down, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
MUTATION — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ chance , random ▪ common ▪ rare ▪ cell , gene , genetic ▪ advantageous , beneficial …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
HEREDITARY — adj. Hereditary is used with these nouns: ↑ cancer , ↑ disease , ↑ monarchy , ↑ peer , ↑ …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
MUTATION — n. 25B6; noun ALTERATION, change, variation, modification, transformation, metamorphosis, transmutation; humorous transmogrification. a genetic mutation : MUTANT, freak (of nature), …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
HEREDITARY — adj. 25B6; adjective a hereditary right : INHERITED; bequeathed, willed, handed-down, passed-down, passed-on, transferred; ancestral, family, familial. a hereditary disease …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
MUTATION — n. 1 change, changing, alteration, altering, modification, modifying, transformation, transforming, metamorphosis, metamorphosing, transmutation, transmuting, transfiguration, transfiguring, evolution, evolving, variation, varying …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
HEREDITARY — adj. 1 heritable, inheritable, transmissible, transferable or transferrable, inherited, genetic, congenital, inborn, innate; atavistic Green eyes and red hair are …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
MUTATION — See Mutation theory
Theological and Philosophical Biography English vocab
MUTATION — сущ. 1) изменение, перемена Syn : alteration, change 1. 2) превратность 3) биол. мутация 4) фон. перегласовка, умляут изменение, перемена …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
HEREDITARY — прил. 1) а) наследственный, потомственный; переходящий из поколения в поколение б) передаваемый по наследству 2) традиционный (в данной семье) наследственный, …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
MUTATION — mutation.ogg mju:ʹteıʃ(ə)n n 1. изменение, перемена 2. превратность 3. биол. 1> мутация mutation of species - мутация вида 2> = …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
HEREDITARY — hereditary.ogg hıʹredıt(ə)rı a 1. 1> наследственный, переходящий из поколения в поколение; унаследованный hereditary instinct - врождённый инстинкт hereditary disease - …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
MUTATION — мутация - amber mutation - back mutation - constitutive mutation - deletion mutation - fertility mutation - frame shift mutation …
Большой Англо-Русский политехнический словарь
MUTATION — мутация - amber mutation - back mutation - constitutive mutation - deletion mutation - fertility mutation - frame shift mutation - leaky mutation - lethal mutation - malefic mutation - …
Большой Англо-Русский политехнический словарь - РУССО
MUTATION — мутационный, мутирование - double mutation - forward mutation - mutation graph - random mutation - reverse mutation - single mutation
Англо-Русский научно-технический словарь
HEREDITARY — матем. наследственный - deductively hereditary
Англо-Русский научно-технический словарь
MUTATION — mutation сущ.1) изменение, перемена Syn:alteration, change 1. 2) превратность 3) биол. мутация 4) фон. перегласовка, умляут
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
MUTATION — n 1. изменение, перемена 2. превратность 3. биол. 1> мутация mutation of species - мутация вида 2> = mutant I …
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
HEREDITARY — a 1. 1> наследственный, переходящий из поколения в поколение; унаследованный hereditary instinct - врождённый инстинкт hereditary disease - болезнь, передающаяся …
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Новый Англо-Русский словарь по биологии
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Новый Англо-Русский биологический словарь
MUTATION — сущ. 1) изменение, перемена Syn : alteration, change 1. 2) превратность 3) биол. мутация 4) фон. перегласовка, умляут изменение, перемена …
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
HEREDITARY — прил. 1) а) наследственный, потомственный; переходящий из поколения в поколение б) передаваемый по наследству 2) традиционный (в данной семье) наследственный, …
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English Dictionary of Medicine

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