GENETIC ENDOWMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genetic endowment mean? 

• GENETIC ENDOWMENT (noun)
  The noun GENETIC ENDOWMENT has 1 sense:

1. the total of inherited attributes

  Familiarity information: GENETIC ENDOWMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENETIC ENDOWMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The total of inherited attributes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

genetic endowment; heredity

Hypernyms ("genetic endowment" is a kind of...):

property (a basic or essential attribute shared by all members of a class)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "genetic endowment"):

hereditary pattern; inheritance ((genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents)

 Context examples 

Studies focus on external agents such as chemicals, radiation, fibers and other particles, viruses, parasitic infections, and host factors such as hormone levels, nutritional and immunologic status, and the genetic endowment of the individual, all of which contribute to the initiation and promotion of cancer.

(Cancer Causation Research, NCI Thesaurus)