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a reappearance of an earlier characteristic

a reappearance of an earlier characteristic

The recurrence of any peculiarity or disease of an ancestor in a subsequent generation, after an intermission for a generation or two.

The recurrence of any peculiarity or disease of an ancestor in a subsequent generation, after an intermission for a generation or two.

The appearance in an individual of any mental or physical characteristic or tendency to disease or diathesis, peculiar to a remote ancestor, but not manifest in the intermediate generations.

Reversion to an ancestral type or trait.

Tendency in offspring to return to the ancestral type; resemblances in special features to remote ancestry. The recurrence of an ancestral peculiarity or weakness in a remote descendant.

Reversion, the occurrence of a characteristic of a remote ancestor not observed in the more immediate ancestors.

The case in which an anomaly or disease, existing in a family, is lost in one generation and reappears in the following.

Inheritance of characters from remote ancestors.

The reappearance of one of the primitive types in the descendants of parents of different races.

That manifestation of ancestral influence which consists in bodily or mental peculiarities inherited from an ancestor more remote than the father and mother; the reappearance of family traits after they have been in abeyance for one or more generations.