Definitions
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- noun a disease or disorder that is inherited genetically
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synonyms (71)
Words with the same meaning
- abnormality
- acute disease
- affection
- affliction
- ailment
- allergic disease
- allergy
- atrophy
- bacterial disease
- birth defect
- blight
- cardiovascular disease
- chronic disease
- circulatory disease
- complaint
- complication
- condition
- congenital defect
- defect
- deficiency disease
- deformity
- degenerative disease
- disability
- disease
- disorder
- distemper
- endemic
- endemic disease
- endocrine disease
- epidemic disease
- functional disease
- fungus disease
- gastrointestinal disease
- handicap
- hereditary disease
- iatrogenic disease
- illness
- indisposition
- infectious disease
- infirmity
- malady
- malaise
- morbidity
- morbus
- muscular disease
- neurological disease
- nutritional disease
- occupational disease
- organic disease
- pandemic disease
- pathological condition
- pathology
- plant disease
- protozoan disease
- psychosomatic disease
- respiratory disease
- rockiness
- secondary disease
- seediness
- sickishness
- sickness
- signs
- symptomatology
- symptomology
- symptoms
- syndrome
- the pip
- urogenital disease
- virus disease
- wasting disease
- worm disease
hypernyms (1)
Words that are more generic or abstract
hyponyms (46)
Words more specific or concrete
- Hirschsprung's disease
- Wilson's disease
- abetalipoproteinemia
- achondroplasia
- achondroplasty
- albers-schonberg disease
- autosomal dominant disease
- autosomal dominant disorder
- autosomal recessive defect
- autosomal recessive disease
- branched chain ketoaciduria
- chondrodystrophy
- congenital afibrinogenemia
- congenital megacolon
- congenital pancytopenia
- dwarfism
- dystrophy
- fanconi's anaemia
- fanconi's anemia
- hepatolenticular degeneration
- hyperbetalipoproteinemia
- ichthyosis
- inborn error of metabolism
- juvenile amaurotic idiocy
- lactase deficiency
- lactose intolerance
- maple syrup urine disease
- marble bones disease
- mcardle's disease
- milk intolerance
- monogenic disease
- monogenic disorder
- mucopolysaccharidosis
- muscular dystrophy
- nanism
- nevoid elephantiasis
- oligodactyly
- oligodontia
- osteopetrosis
- osteosclerosis congenita
- otosclerosis
- pachyderma
- polygenic disease
- polygenic disorder
- porphyria
- spielmeyer-vogt disease
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