hereditary
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These were caused by firstly a bed bound state and secondary hereditary spastic paraplegia.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
But the ability to identify and eliminate debilitating diseases—for example, hereditary blindness—is nothing short of amazing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
Scientists at Ruhr University Bochum found that the protein produced by CD99L2 works as an activating partner for CAPN1, a calcium-dependent protease already known to be involved in hereditary spastic paraplegia and ataxia.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 13, 2026
Pulmonary embolism and hereditary coagulopathy — an arterial blockage in the lungs and issues with blood clotting either too much or too little — contributed to his death, People said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 30, 2026
A “gene for redness,” Beets understood, is a unit of hereditary information, and it is carried from a parent to its children in an indivisible form in DNA—in genes, in chromosomes.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Vocabulary lists containing hereditary
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"Democracy in America, Vol. 1" by Alexis de Tocqueville, Introduction–Chapter 5
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