| ARPD | autosomal recessive polycystic disease |
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| ARPKD | autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease |
| ARSACS | autosomal recessive spastic ataxia of Charlevoix-Saguenay |
| CPXR | chondrodysplasia punctata, X-linked recessive |
| MCR | Medical Corps Reserve; melanocortin receptor; message competition ratio; metabolic clearance rate; m... |
| RXLI | Recessive X-linked ichthyosis |
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| RDEB | Recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa |
| SCARMD | Severe childhood autosomal recessive muscular dystrophy |
| SLRL | Sex-linked recessive lethal |
| character disorder | A term referring to a group of behavioural disorder's, now replaced by a more general term, personality disorder, of which character disorder's are now a subclass. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| character neurosis | A subclass of personality disorders. (05 Mar 2000) |
| classifiable character | A character that allows individuals to be sorted into distinct but not quantitative classes, e.g., blood types. (05 Mar 2000) |
| compound character | An inherited character dependent upon two or more distinct genes. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sex-linked character | An inherited character determined by a gene on a gonosome. See: gene. (05 Mar 2000) |
| denumerable character | Classifiable character that is also countable (e.g., number of progeny, number of teeth). Synonym: discrete character. (05 Mar 2000) |
| discrete character | Classifiable character that is also countable (e.g., number of progeny, number of teeth). Synonym: discrete character. (05 Mar 2000) |
| dominant character | An inherited character determined by one kind of allele. See: phenotype. (05 Mar 2000) |
| inherited character | A single attribute of an animal or plant that is transmitted at one locus from generation to generation in accordance with Mendel's law. See: gene. Synonym: unit character. (05 Mar 2000) |
| unit character | <genetics> A particular trait or characteristic (usually controlled by a single gene or a set of inseparable genes) that is passed on as a unit in heredity. (09 Oct 1997) |