Modifying Another Word

• often: Guinea pigs with this problem should not be bred since dental malocclusion is often hereditary.

• not: The majority of types of arthritis are not hereditary.

• strictly: However, there was little pretense that it was held on a strictly hereditary basis.

• partly: The Upper House, in theory, defies every canon of democracy, since its membership is mainly appointed and partly hereditary.

• either: There is no evidence to suggest that CAD is either hereditary or infectious.

• probably: The Times editorial on June 3rd claimed that being " barking mad was probably hereditary.

Modifies a noun

• haemochromatosis: Treatment The treatment for hereditary haemochromatosis is very simple: blood is removed from the body at regular intervals.

• peer: Why not, instead of hereditary peers, have the House of Lords filled with lucky winners?

• peerage: Following the House of Lords Act 1999 there are only 92 peers who sit by virtue of hereditary peerage.

• non-polyposis: MSI has been reported in a variety of cancers and is a consistent feature of tumors from patients with hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer.

• nonpolyposis: PATIENTS: Carriers of a mutation for hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer who were 25 years of age.

• monarchy: Simply put, a core part of what hereditary monarchy is all about is lineage.

Used with adjective complement

• become: During the troubles of the sixteenth century, the right became hereditary, or at least was declared such by several decisions.

• make: This title was also made hereditary for the first son in line.

• consider: In other words, knighthood in the Order was always considered hereditary in a sense.

Preposition: in

• nature: Habits are either hereditary in nature or grows through imitation, but in both cases based on replication of a precedent.

• sense: In other words, knighthood in the Order was always considered hereditary in a sense.