| Answer | Crossword Clue |
|---|---|
| incurable | (of a sick person or a disease) Not able to be cured |
| carriers | A person or other organism that possesses a particular gene, esp. as a single copy whose effect is masked by a dominant allele, so that the associated characteristic (such as a hereditary disease) is not displayed but may be passed to offspring |
| inconsolable | (of a person or their grief) Not able to be comforted or alleviated |
| nonnegotiable | (of a document) Not able to be transferred or assigned to the legal ownership of another person |
| communicable | (of a disease) Able to be transmitted from one sufferer to another; contagious or infectious |
| hereditary | (of a characteristic or disease) Determined by genetic factors and therefore able to be passed on from parents to their offspring or descendants |
