Definition of "familial" []

Of or relating to a family. (adjective)
Occurring or tending to occur among members of a family, usually by heredity: familial traits; familial disease. (adjective)

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Use "familial" in a sentence

"The risk of gastrointestinal carcinoma in familial juvenile polyposis."
"Correction of hemodynamic abnormalities by vesicoamniotic shunting in familial congenital megacystis."
"Nestorowicz A, Glaser B, Wilson BA, Shyng SL, Nichols CG, Stanley CA, et al. Genetic heterogeneity in familial hyperinsulinism [published erratum appears in Hum Mol Genet 1998 Sep; 7 (9): 1527]."

Words like "familial"

atherosclerotic autosomal basilar ethnic

filial genetic hereditary heritable

inheritable inherited interpersonal marital

ovarian thoracoabdominal transmissible transmitted