(n.) One of a race of South African nomads, living principally in the deserts, and not classified as allied in race or language to any other people.
Example Sentences:
(1) Before the trial the Bushmans had dropped their allegation of damages for the cost of raising the child and sued only for wrongful pregnancy.
(2) The author argues that the similarity of the Bushman trance state, kia and that of drug-induced altered states of consciousness has been paid too little attention in the research, and that an enigma currently exists with regard to the degree to which plant drugs may have influenced the !Kung trance phenomenon and healing beliefs.
(3) The Gm and Inv types were determined for eight San (Bushman) populations, two Khoikhoi (Hottentot) populations, one Coloured population, 112 San families in which the genotypes of the parents could be unambiguously determined, and for 65 San families in which the genotype of one or both parents could not be determined with certainty.
(4) Thomas Bushman and Mrs. Bushman sued Dr. John Hall of the Burns Medical Center when Mrs. Bushman became pregnant after her husband had undergong a vasectomy.
(5) Nor is there any evidence of San ('Bushman') admixture apart from a moderate frequency of Gm; their genetic profile and their anthroposcopic traits disclose a greater similarity to West African than to Southern African Negroes.
(6) Studies of geographic patterning in conventional genetic markers and mitochondrial DNA indicate that the Bushman clade has a long evolutionary history in southern Africa.
(7) This is only the second such case described in southern Africa, the previous one being a Kalahari San ("Bushman").
(8) The ability of activators of the beta-adrenergic receptor to elevate intracellular cAMP levels in murine fibroblasts is enhanced upon overexpression of avian c-src [Bushman et al.
(9) The Amish carriage now shares the highway with the Mercedes car; the Australian bushman may still go walkabout, but he goes connected up to his Walkman; the recluse in the beach hut north of Sausalito may look like a beachcomber, but he is probably an internet millionaire.
(10) The San dental complex contains traits that add mass to the occlusal surface of microdontic dentitions: moderate low-grade UI1 (13.5%) and UI2 shoveling (24.7%), high Bushman canine (43.1%), fairly low UM2 hypocone reduction (23.3%), high UM2 cusp 5 (55.6%), high LM1 cusp 7 (35.2%), LM1 distal trigonid crest (7.1%), and LM2 deflecting wrinkle (5.3%), lack of reduction of LM1 and LM2 cusp number, in the presence of very low UM1 Carabelli's trait (6.7%) and high LM2 Y-groove (86.3%).
(11) A deficiency of the enzyme is found in certain members of the !Kung division of the San ('Bushman').
(12) Significant amounts of immunoreactive cardiac glycoside were found to be present in the ornamental shrubs: yellow oleander (Thevetia peruviana); oleander (Nerium oleander); wintersweet (Carissa spectabilis); bushman's poison (Carissa acokanthera); sea-mango (Cerbera manghas); and frangipani (Plumeria rubra); and in the milkweeds: redheaded cotton-bush (Asclepias curassavica); balloon cotton (Asclepias fruiticosa); king's crown (Calotropis procera); and rubber vine (Cryptostegia grandifolia).
(13) Endocrine parameters were assayed in a San ("Bushman") population of Botswana in an attempt to correlate hormonal secretion and body morphology.
(14) Mean copper values were much higher in the American inner-city mothers (19.9 ppm) than in the Bushman women (8.0 ppm) or in the lactating Bantu women (9.9 ppm).
(15) The numbers of precoccygeal vertebrae (PCV) are compared in Southern African Negroes, Bushman (San) and American Negroes.
(16) The variables which supported the bimodality were mostly concerned with palatal dimensions and the classifications were all above 50% with the Bushman groups classifying better than the others at 77.8% (left) and 70.8% (right).
(17) The leftmost short and long open reading frames encode EBNA3, a nuclear protein which is slightly smaller (145 kilodaltons [kDa]) than two other nuclear proteins (150 to 155 kDa) detected in Western blots (immunoblots) of latently infected cell protein (K. Hennessy, F. Wang, E. Woodland-Bushman, and E. Kieff, Proc.
(18) It is suggested that the influence of a number of psychoactive drugs may have played a much more pivotal role in Bushman behavior and belief than is generally acknowledged.
(19) Hair samples from Bushman women (young nonpregnant, lactating, and postmenopausal) and men were analyzed for iron, zinc, and copper content.
(20) Mean iron levels in the hair were found to be high (173 ppm) for lactating Bushman women, as compared with 43.2 ppm in the group of Bantu women, and 22.9 ppm in the group of American inner-city women.
Bushmen
Definition:
(pl. ) of Bushman
Example Sentences:
(1) Subsequent tests of serum samples from US blacks and whites, from Japanese, Ainu, San (Bushmen), Negros, Asiatic Indians and Jews from Cochin India demonstrated that the antibody detects an antigen that is usually present in a haplotype when Gm (15) is absent from it.
(2) Highly crowded living conditions exist among the !Kung Bushmen, hunter-gatherers who live on the edges of the Kalahari Desert in Botswana and South-West Africa.
(3) On the basis of Caucasian criteria, that metabolic ratios greater than 12.6 represent poor metabolizers, 19% of the Bushmen were poor metabolizers in contrast to the 8-10% found in Caucasian studies.
(4) These results suggest that semi-urbanized Bushmen have changed their diets under urbanized conditions which may increase their risk of coronary heart disease.
(5) They have received very little genetic contribution from the Khoikhoi or the San (Bushmen).
(6) The metabolic oxidation of metoprolol has been studied in a group of 98 San Bushmen.
(7) The metabolic oxidation of debrisoquine has been studied in a group of 96 San Bushmen.
(8) Thirty-nine urbanized ethnic Namibian people comprising 21 Bushmen (semi-urbanized), 7 Hereros and 11 Kavangos were assessed for plasma lipids and fatty acid (FA) composition.
(9) The other eight systems revealed a close resemblance to the Negroes of Southern Africa, and a marked contrast with the San ('Bushmen').
(10) Although short stature is thought to be genetic in origin (Bushmen were on average 15 cm shorter than Hereros), body mass corrected for height was severely diminished in 30% of adults, fat stores were depleted in 70%, and arm muscle was reduced in 75%.
(11) Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs) were investigated in 95 individuals, consisting of 49 San ('Bushmen') and 46 Nama ('Hottentot') individuals from Namibia, using the restriction enzymes HpaI, BamHI, HaeII, MspI, AvaII and HincII.
(12) The results do not support explanations of the low fertilities observed among !Kung Bushmen women, in whom it is thought that fitness is maximized by limiting fertility, and show no relationship between mortality and family size in either !Kung population.
(13) The results raise serious doubts about the survival of Bushmen as an independent ethnic group.
(14) In order to assess the advisability of using milk as a nutritional supplement for such patients, the tolerance and absorption of 350 ml boluses of whole milk (containing 17 g lactose) was measured in 110 malnourished hospitalized patients in Namibia and South Africa belonging to Bantu (ie, Zulus, Hereros, and Kavangos) and San (ie, Bushmen) populations and compared with 22 healthy Westernized controls.
(15) We use the model to make predictions about fertility and mortality patterns among two Bushmen populations of southern Africa--the Ghanzi and Ngamiland !Kung--using data collected by Harpending in 1967-1968.
(16) Bushmen lie at one end of the range of variability, Senegalese being at the other end but still fairly closely related to Bantu.
(17) By comparing Bushmen with Hereros and Kavangos, significant differences between Bushmen and Kavangos were also observed in plasma triacylglycerol FA compositions, particularly 16:0 (32.73% vs. 25.05%), 16:1n-7 (7.00% vs. 5.06%), 18:2n-6 (9.30% vs. 22.25%) and 20:3n-6 (0.12% vs. 0.48%), while Kavangos had higher 20:4n-6 levels than Hereros (1.44% vs. 2.00%).
(18) Mild symptoms of intolerance were noted in about 10 per cent of Bantus and 20 per cent of Bushmen in comparison to 33 per cent of lactose-malabsorbing controls consuming Westernized diets and reported rates of 48 and 80 per cent in American population studies.
(19) The 4% result for debrisoquine differs considerably from the 19% found in San Bushmen, 30% in Hong Kong Chinese, 9% in Britains and 0% in Nigerians and Japanese, whilst the 7.4% result for metoprolol compares with 8.4% in Britains but differs from 0% in Nigerians and 4.1% in San Bushmen.
(20) The blood lipid levels of Bushmen and Kavangos were exceptionally 'favourable' by Western standards but associated with chronic malnutrition.