inherited disorder
Passed-down ailment
An inherited disorder is a medical condition passed from parents to offspring through genes.
These disorders range from mild to fatal and may appear at birth or develop later in life.
Cystic fibrosis, sickle cell anemia, and Huntington's disease are inherited disorders.
The doctor asked about inherited disorders in our family history.
- Down syndromeThird chromosome 21 present
- recessive geneAllele expressed only when paired
- Tay-Sachs diseaseHereditary enzyme deficiency disorder
- Niemann-Pick diseaseLysosomal lipid storage disorder
- rare diseaseAilment with few patients
Wilson's disease · family history · genetic mutation · birth defect · Huntington's disease · dominant trait · hemophilia · color blindness · DNA testing · medical diagnosis · sickle cell anemia · muscular dystrophy
inherited disorderlifestyle disease
Condition caused by habits
occupational disease · nutritional deficiency · injury · traumatic injury · trauma
inherited disorderinfectious disease
Pathogen-caused transmissible ailment
contagious disease · communicable disease · viral infection · bacterial infection · sexually transmitted disease
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