Look up: familial

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   familial
   [adj] - relating to or having the characteristics of a family 2. [adj] - tending to occur among members of a family usually by heredity
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   Familial
   A familial condition runs in the family. This is different to an inherited condition, which is one that is definitely passed on by a particular gene. A familial condition shows up more often in a particular family, but not everyone gets it and there is no known single inherited gene.
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   Familial
   a term describing a disorder or characteristic (such as male pattern baldness) that occurs within a family more often than would be expected
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   Familial
   Familial is when a non-inherited disease or condition tends to affect more members of the same family, than other families in the general population.
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   Familial
   Familial: A condition that is tends to occur more often in family members than expected by chance alone. A familial disease may be genetic (such as cystic fibrosis) or environmental (such as tuberculosis).
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   familial
   1)a degeneration of the cornea first described by Fuchs as an epithelial dystrophy,but later found to be dependent on a prior endothelial dystrophy Category: Medicine
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   familial
   Occurring in families. An inherited disorder or trait. ... (27 Sep 1997) ...
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   familial
   genetic adjective tending to occur among members of a family usually by heredity; `an inherited disease`; `familial traits`; `genetically transmitted features`
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   familial
   adjective relating to or having the characteristics of a family; `children of the same familial background`; `familial aggregation`
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    familial
    (fә-mil´e-әl) occurring in or affecting more members of a family than would be expected by chance. The term is often incorrectly equated with genetic.
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    familial
    Affecting more members of the same family than can be accounted for by chance, usually within a single sibship; commonly but incorrectly used to mean genetic. [L. familia, family]
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