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 hereditary [hi'reditәri]   添加此单词到默认生词本
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    hereditary
    [ adj ]
    1. occurring among members of a family usually by heredity

      2. <adj.all>
      an inherited disease
      familial traits
      genetically transmitted features
    2. inherited or inheritable by established rules (usually legal rules) of descent

      3. <adj.all>
      ancestral home
      ancestral lore
      hereditary monarchy
      patrimonial estate
      transmissible tradition


    Hereditary \He*red"i*ta*ry\, a. [L. hereditarius, fr. hereditas
    heirship, inheritance, fr. heres heir: cf. F.
    h['e]r['e]ditaire. See {Heir}.]
    1. 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.

    2. Transmitted, or capable of being transmitted, as a
    constitutional quality or condition from a parent to a
    child; as, hereditary pride, bravery, disease.

    Syn: Ancestral; patrimonial; inheritable.

    1. The affair will raise money to further research and help victims of retinitis pigmentosa, a hereditary retinal disease that causes progressive loss of vision.
    2. As is customary in the Maldives, a former hereditary sultanate that became independent from Britain in 1965, he was the only candidate and the ballot was a yes-or-no vote.
    3. Tun, tan seri and datuk are among the many hereditary or conferred titles borne by leading citizens.
    4. Warlick's main focus was an area of a chromosome near a marker for a hereditary heart ailment, familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
    5. As the Queen surveys the tribe of which she is the hereditary chief, she must often shudder, and it is difficult not to feel some sympathy.
    6. The paper said the national law also would bar the mentally retarded or people with hereditary diseases from marrying without first being sterilized.
    7. Secular, religious and military power rest with the sultan, a hereditary ruler who is head of state, prime minister, defense minister and commander of the armed forces.
    8. The most powerful and richest of the continent's five remaining hereditary monarchs is Brunei's Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, an absolute ruler who resides in a 1,788-room palace and keeps some of his 200 horses in air-conditioned stables.
    9. After almost a century on the throne, the Shahs were reduced to titular heads by the Ranas, who established a parallel line of hereditary prime ministers.
    10. DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, is an essential part of all living matter and a basic material in the chromosomes of the cell nucleus; it contains the genetic code and transmits the hereditary pattern.
    11. Stalker and other molecular biologists at Calgene said they successfully removed a gene, or hereditary instruction, from soil bacteria and inserted it into tobacco plants.
    12. Likewise, Carol Ryrie Brink's Newbery award-winning "Caddie Woodlawn" (Macmillan, $13.95; paperback, $3.95) contrasts the English aristocratic ideal of hereditary privilege and the American individualistic ideals of freedom and the self-made person.
    13. The health minister has warned that China's high incidence of hereditary diseases, disabilities and illiteracy is a threat to national development, it was reported Wednesday.
    14. He carries the title "Sir" because he is a baronet, a holder of a hereditary title in British nobility.
    15. Eugenics is the concept of improving the human species by controlling hereditary factors through controlled mating or through genetics.
    16. Generally, Meyers says, rarest diseases are those known as recessive hereditary disorders.
    17. Biological viruses are pieces of the hereditary code that take over a cell's machinery to trick it into making thousands of duplicates of the original virus that spread from cell to cell. Viruses cause diseases such as AIDS.
    18. In the past five years, for example, health insurers have started approving workers' claims related to hereditary sleep disorders just as they do for other medical claims.
    19. The aim of the study was to find out how much of this difference among individuals was due to hereditary factors and how much was due to environmental factors, the excess calories in this case.
    20. Down's syndrome is the nation's most common disorder of the chromosomes _ the microscopic threads in each cell that carry genes, which govern hereditary characteristics.
    21. "Temperament is 70% hereditary," says Janice Price, an official at the American Kennel Club.
    22. Emperor Akihito formally assumes the world's oldest hereditary throne Monday in lavish ceremonies that also may be an important rite of passage for postwar Japan.
    23. "We intend to open up French eyes about the unification of Germany, which was too rapid," the students said in a statement. "Germany is the hereditary enemy of France." No violence was reported by the students, most of whom are studying medicine.
    24. The scientists followed up on the 1987 discovery that the gene causing the disorder lay somewhere within a portion of chromosome 17, one of the 23 versions of the thread-like structures that carry human hereditary information.
    25. No one but a few Oxford students could have thought that hereditary peers, mad or sane, were vital in the government of the country, but there is some fun.
    26. They are descended from people who were designated as hereditary outcasts in the 17th century and were officially liberated by the Meiji government in 1871, just eight years after Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation freed the slaves in the United States.
    27. It may be a hereditary ability.
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