hereditary condition

Questions about hereditary condition

What does hereditary condition mean?

hereditary condition means "a disease or disorder that is inherited genetically".

What is another word for hereditary condition?

Close synonyms include genetic disease, genetic disorder, genetic abnormality, genetic defect, congenital disease. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hereditary condition a common word?

hereditary condition is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.