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familial

pertaining to a family: familial ties; heredity: a familial disease

Not to be confused with:

familiar – generally known: a familiar plant; informal: to write in a familiar style; personal; intimate: a familiar friend

fa·mil·ial

(fə-mĭl′yəl)

adj.

1. Of or relating to a family.

2. Occurring or tending to occur among members of a family, usually by heredity: familial traits; familial disease.

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familial

(fəˈmɪlɪəl)

adj

1. of or relating to the family

2. (Genetics) occurring in the members of a family: a familial disease.

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fa•mil•ial

(fəˈmɪl yəl, -ˈmɪl i əl)

adj.

of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a family: familial ties.

[1895–1900; < French]

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Adj.	1.	familial - relating to or having the characteristics of a family; "children of the same familial background"; "familial aggregation"
	2.	familial - occurring among members of a family usually by heredity; "an inherited disease"; "familial traits"; "genetically transmitted features" genetic, hereditary, inherited, transmitted, transmissible heritable, inheritable - capable of being inherited; "inheritable traits such as eye color"; "an inheritable title"

familial

adjective

Of or relating to the family or household:

domestic, family, home, homely, household.

Translations

familial

obiteljski

родственный

familial

[fəˈmɪlɪəl] ADJ (frm) (= relating to families) → familiar; (= typical of families) → de familia

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

familial

[fəˈmɪliəl] adj [relationship, ties] → familial(e); [responsibilities] → familial(e)

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

familial

adj → familiär

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

familial

[fəˈmɪlɪəl] adj (frm) → familiare

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

fa·mil·i·al

a. familiar, rel. a la familia; frecuente;

___ adenomatous polyposis → poliposis adenomatosa ___;

___ amyloid neuropathy → neuropatía amiloide ___;

___ dysautonomia → disautonomía ___;

___ goiter → bocio ___;

___ hypercholesteremia → hipercolesteremia ___;

___ jaundice → ictericia ___;

___ Mediterranean fever → fiebre ___ del Mediterráneo;

___ periodic paralysis → parálisis periódica ___;

___ pseudoinflammatory macular degeneration → degeneración macular pseudo-inflamatoria ___;

___ screening → escrutinio ___.

English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012

familial

adj familiar

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A chivalrous young American may offer his life for a remote ideal which yet may belong to his familial tradition.

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Amit Sud, M.B.Ch.B., Ph.D., from the Institute of Cancer Research in London, and colleagues examined the familial risk of different hematological malignancies and their possible inter-relationships using data on more than 16 million individuals from the Swedish Family Cancer Database.

Hematological Malignancy Risk Up for First-Degree Relatives; Increased familial relative risks for the same tumor type for most hematological malignancies

Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is the most common autoinflammatory disease (AID), and it is characterized by spontaneous attack with fever, abdominal pain, and polyserositis.

Treatment of familial mediterranean fever with canakinumab in patients who are unresponsive to colchicine

Familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) is an autosomal recessive inherited disorder, which particularly affects Jewish, Armenian, Turkish, and Arabic populations.[1] The disease progresses with recurrent episodes.

Familial Mediterranean fever with recurrent erysipelas-like erythema and myalgia: A case report

Albireo Pharma announced that findings from multiple studies on progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis and other cholestatic liver diseases will be presented at major upcoming North American liver meetings.

Albireo Pharma to present findings from multiple studies on PFIC

Fatal familial insomnia (FFI) is a serious and rare prion disease, which was first reported by Lugaresi et al.

Expert Consensus on Clinical Diagnostic Criteria for Fatal Familial Insomnia

Familial exudative vitreoretinopathy (FEVR) is a rare hereditary disease affecting retinal vascular development, and was first described in 1969 by Criswick and Schepens.

Familial Exudative Retinopathy: A Case and Family Analysis

Progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis (PFIC) is one of the causes of childhood end stage liver disease.

Surgical treatment for intractable pruritus in progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis

The study focused on a particular and very rare form of high blood pressure, known as familial hyper aldosteronism type II.

Experts discover genetic cause of rare high blood pressure syndrome

Progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis is a rare type of cholestasis.

Giant Right Atrial Aneurysm Accompanying Intrahepatic Cholestasis

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