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Definition of Genetic disease
1. Noun. A disease or disorder that is inherited genetically.
Generic synonyms: Disease
Specialized synonyms: Monogenic Disease, Monogenic Disorder, Polygenic Disease, Polygenic Disorder, Achondroplasia, Achondroplasty, Chondrodystrophy, Osteosclerosis Congenita, Abetalipoproteinemia, Inborn Error Of Metabolism, Congenital Megacolon, Hirschsprung's Disease, Mucopolysaccharidosis, Hyperbetalipoproteinemia, Ichthyosis, Branched Chain Ketoaciduria, Maple Syrup Urine Disease, Mcardle's Disease, Dystrophy, Muscular Dystrophy, Oligodactyly, Oligodontia, Otosclerosis, Autosomal Dominant Disease, Autosomal Dominant Disorder, Autosomal Recessive Defect, Autosomal Recessive Disease, Congenital Pancytopenia, Fanconi's Anaemia, Fanconi's Anemia, Juvenile Amaurotic Idiocy, Spielmeyer-vogt Disease, Congenital Afibrinogenemia, Albers-schonberg Disease, Marble Bones Disease, Osteopetrosis, Nevoid Elephantiasis, Pachyderma, Dwarfism, Nanism, Lactase Deficiency, Lactose Intolerance, Milk Intolerance, Porphyria, Hepatolenticular Degeneration, Wilson's Disease
Medical Definition of Genetic disease
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Genetic Disease
Literary usage of Genetic disease
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Genetic Information and Health Care: Hearing Before the Committee on Labor edited by James M. Jeffords (2001)
"A couple loses their teen-age daughter to a genetic disease and finds out ...
A small business owner's child has a rare genetic disease which responds to a ..."
2. Novel Systems for the Study of Human Disease: From Basic Research to by OECD Staff (1998)
"This may take the form of imitating a known human genetic disease, ... Genetic
diseases Cystic fibrosis is a genetic disease of humans associated with a ..."
3. Useful Knowledge: The American Philosophical Society Millennium Program by Alexander G. Bearn, American Philosophical Society (1999)
"If I were to summarize that revolution in a single sentence, that sentence would
be "cancer is, in essence, a genetic disease." That's the long and the ..."
4. Directory of Federal Laboratory and Technology Resources: A Guide to (1993)
"These general classes of genetic disease are emphasized: hereditary metabolic
diseases, including inborn errors of amino acid, organic acid, ..."
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