acquired
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ac·quired
(ə-kwīrd') 
adj.
adj.
- Of or relating to a disease, condition, or characteristic that is not congenital but develops after birth.
- Resulting from exposure to something, such as an antigen or antibiotic.
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Applied to a condition contracted after birth and not due to an inherited disease.
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(ə-kwīrd')
adj.
adj.
- Of or relating to a disease, condition, or characteristic that is not congenital but develops after birth.
- Developed in response to an antigen, as resistance to a disease by vaccination or previous infection.
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acquired
Incurred as a result of factors acting from or originating outside the organism; not inherited.
- a. bleeding — a tendency to bleed caused by factors other than inherited and congenital ones. Includes dicoumarol and warfarin poisonings, nutritional deficiency of vitamin K, liver disease and autoimmune thrombocytopenias.
- feline a. immunodeficiency syndrome — see feline immunodeficiency virus.
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- Diagnostic Terminology - acquired: (adj) designating condition or disorder contracted after birth, not hereditary
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