race

race definition - medical

race (rās)

noun
  1. A local geographic or global human population distinguished as a more or less distinct group by genetically transmitted physical characteristics.
  2. A population of organisms differing from others of the same species in the frequency of hereditary traits; a subspecies.
  3. A breed or strain, as of domestic animals.

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