inherited disorder

Questions about inherited disorder

What does inherited disorder mean?

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

What is another word for inherited disorder?

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 inherited disorder a common word?

inherited disorder 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.