adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a genetic/hereditary condition (= that is passed from parent to child )
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The disease is a genetic condition that eventually causes blindness.
a hereditary/inherited disease (= that is passed from parent to child )
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Parents are offered screening for some hereditary diseases.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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factor
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What occurred was the expansion and deepening of its concepts to include racial and hereditary factors .
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He wondered whether it was a hereditary factor , passed down from her father, gained by him through osmosis.
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Unsoundness which could be due to hereditary factors would be a good reason for rejecting the mare.
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This hereditary factor means that there is often a connection between the physical appearance of an individual and it s temperament.
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More important information about the influence of hereditary factors in ulcer disease has been derived from studies of twins.
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In addition to cancer inductions, ionizing radiation may have significant effects on pre-natal development and on genetic or hereditary factors .
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Further, the chromosomes had precisely the properties postulated by Mendel as belonging to his hereditary factors .
peer
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For others, it's the removal of the hereditary peers or the Macpherson inquiry into the Stephen Lawrence case.
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But the hereditary peers provide a ballast which distorts any pretence at representativeness.
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The defeat is the second inflicted on the Government since the expulsion of hereditary peers .
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Viscount Astor, a hardworking and professional hereditary Peer .
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Until his party's death, a hereditary peer , Lord Milford, was the sole Communist in parliament.
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The remaining 275 hereditary peers state no preference, though they would mostly vote Tory if pushed.
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Ironically, the hereditary peers thus became the only people who have the right to democratic representation in the second chamber.
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That would outrage the Tories, who would lose their last hereditary peers .
principle
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The hereditary principle is only as good as heredity's next spin of the wheel.
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Thirdly, again helped by circumstances, he had to some extent ended the hereditary principle as applying to the emperorship.
right
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The group who were the most uncompromising in their attachment to divine and hereditary right were the Nonjurors.
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John was a substantial magnate but, in terms of land held in hereditary right , not one of the first rank.
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It found itself unable to prevent the pomeshchiks from buying and selling their estates and rapidly establishing defacto hereditary rights of ownership.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Some forms of deafness are hereditary .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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However, the period immediately after the Conquest saw short-lived hereditary surnames beginning to emerge.
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It found itself unable to prevent the pomeshchiks from buying and selling their estates and rapidly establishing defacto hereditary rights of ownership.
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It was rather a kind of oligarchy, with a strong hereditary element in its composition.
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Man-eating, he claimed, was not hereditary .
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The counts are hereditary rulers whose families have long and famous histories.
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The system of reversion could also be used, as we have seen, to establish something near to defacto hereditary tenure.
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This hereditary factor means that there is often a connection between the physical appearance of an individual and it s temperament.
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Where evidence is available, some kind of hereditary comital succession seems always to have been normal.