hereditation

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English

Noun

hereditation (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) The effect or influence of heredity.
    • 1904, James Tyson, A Treatise on Bright's disease and diabetes, page 362:
      Probably syphilis more than any other disease may be regarded as a cause, and it may be through this agency that hereditation appears to enter so largely into causation.