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acquired

  (ə-kwīrd') pronunciation
adj.
  1. Of or relating to a disease, condition, or characteristic that is not congenital but develops after birth.
  2. Resulting from exposure to something, such as an antigen or antibiotic.

 
 

Applied to a condition contracted after birth and not due to an inherited disease.

 
Medical Dictionary: ac·quired
(ə-kwīrd')
adj.
  1. Of or relating to a disease, condition, or characteristic that is not congenital but develops after birth.
  2. Developed in response to an antigen, as resistance to a disease by vaccination or previous infection.
 

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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The adjective has one meaning:

Meaning #1: gotten through environmental forces


 
 

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