semidominant in English
adjective
(Genetics) partially dominant, producing a trait that is intermediate to two different inherited traits (in heterozygotes)
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1. The authors are of the opinion that in the present case as in all other reported cases the transmission of this condition can be explained by the presence of a semidominant allelomorph acting in different ways on the genotype. This would also explain the variations which occur in the clinical symptomatology, the onset and the general course of the disease.