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"Hereditary" in a Sentence (14 examples)
My baby has a hereditary disease.
My son has an hereditary disease.
Her face is really swollen, but she says that it isn't the mumps. Apparently, it's some unknown hereditary disease.
The disease we are talking about is hereditary.
Fascism is the hereditary enemy of every thought, whatever that thought may be.
One perched, Celaeno, on a rock, and lo, / thus croaked the dismal seer her prophecy of woe. / "War, too, Laomedon's twice-perjured race! / War do ye bring, our cattle stol'n and slain? / And unoffending Harpies would ye chase / forth from their old, hereditary reign?"
But the man had hereditary tendencies of the most diabolical kind. A criminal strain ran in his blood, which, instead of being modified, was increased and rendered infinitely more dangerous by his extraordinary mental powers.
In later stages of pregnancy, blood can be taken from the umbilical cord to test for a range of hereditary conditions.
Cousin marriage increases the risk of hereditary disease.
Hereditary Prince Alois is the regent of Liechtenstein.
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Duke is a hereditary title which was created in Norman times.
hereditary rulers
Haemophilia is hereditary in his family.
Xanthuria is an hereditary disorder in which there is an absence of the enzyme xanthine oxidase which interferes with the metabolic breakdown of purines, leading to an increased excretion of xanthine in the urine and to formation of stones.
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