(a.) Of or pertaining to the Caucasus, a mountainous region between the Black and Caspian seas.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the white races of mankind, of whom the people about Mount Caucasus were formerly taken as the type.
(n.) A native or inhabitant of the Caucasus, esp. a Circassian or Georgian.
(n.) A member of any of the white races of mankind.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is suggested that the Japanese may have lower trabecular bone mineral density than Caucasians but may also have a lower threshold for fracture of the vertebrae.
(2) Odds ratios were computed by multiple logistic regression analysis and revealed no additional relationships; however, there were suggested dose-response gradients for height, weight at age 20, and body surface area in the Japanese women and for breast size in the Caucasian women.
(3) In a Caucasian woman with a history of ocular and pulmonary sarcoidosis, the occurrence of sclerosing peritonitis with exudative ascites but without any of the well-known causes of this syndrome prompts us to consider that sclerosing peritonitis is a manifestation of sarcoidosis.
(4) Analysis of HLA DRB1 and DQB1 Bam HI RFLPs revealed four DRB1 (4.8, 5.2, 6.0 and 7.0 kb) fragments and a 3.2 kb DQB1 fragment to be significantly increased in Caucasians with seropositive RA compared to healthy individuals.
(5) Late stage at diagnosis is common among Filipino and ethnic Hawaiian woman, and their risk of death is 1.5-1.7 times that of Caucasian, Chinese, and Japanese women with the disease, even after adjustment for age, extent of disease, and socio-economic status.
(6) We therefore developed a food frequency questionnaire and tested it against a 4-day weighed food record in 54 Caucasian women, between 29 and 72 years of age.
(7) The first individual is Oriental and carries Cw1 and Cw3 on the same haplotype, the other individuals are Caucasian and carry either Cw1, Cw3 or Cw1 and Cw3 on different haplotypes.
(8) Although complete data were not available, it appeared that the incidence of breast cancer is lower in this population of Hispanic women than in Caucasian women.
(9) It was also observed that the values obtained in the present study were lower than those for Caucasian children.
(10) An 8-year-old Caucasian male presented with two episodes of gross hematuria but was otherwise asymptomatic.
(11) Approximately 450 respondents over the age of 15 years were investigated in each of the following: a tribal Xhosa community in Transkei; a rural Tswana community in the northwestern Transvaal; an urban Negro population in Johannesburg; and a Caucasian community in the same city.
(12) The actuarial survival at 2 years after grafting of Blacks, Hispanics and Asians was compared with that of Caucasians transplanted between 1971 and 1985 for aplastic anaemia, acute non-lymphocytic leukaemia and acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.
(13) Since immunological and hereditary factors may be important in chronic pancreatitis, histocompatibility antigens of classes I and II were studied in 50 British Caucasian patients, after exclusion of insulin-dependent diabetics for whom HLA associations are recognised.
(14) No study until now has examined the impact of the physical and psychological condition on voter turnout among elderly African Americans and Caucasians.
(15) The low values for triceps skinfold thickness are probably due to differences in the distribution of subcutaneous fat at different sites in the body as found between caucasian and non-caucasian population groups.
(16) Some of our results were different from the Caucasian both on the allele frequencies and the restriction fragment length.
(17) The variant promoter was not present in 35 Caucasian NIDDM patients or in 40 Pima Indians.
(18) alpha-Interferon has been shown to be the most promising antiviral agent in the treatment of chronic hepatitis B virus infection in Caucasian patients.
(19) The hypothesis that the index, body height2 divided by resistance (RI), can accurately predict fat-free body mass (FFB) and percent fat (%FAT) in children was tested on 94 caucasian children 10-14 yr old.
(20) Ours is the first population based study of its kind in Asian children, and challenges the view that there is a large difference in the prevalence of IDDM between Asians and White Caucasians.
Negroid
Definition:
(a.) Characteristic of the negro.
(a.) Resembling the negro or negroes; of or pertaining to those who resemble the negro.
Example Sentences:
(1) No outstandingly high value for gametic association between the alleles of the 2 HL-A series was observed, but haplotypes formed by antigens with dissimilar frequencies in Caucasoids, Negroids and American Indian tribes have shown statistically significant D values.
(2) The percentages of two-locus haplotypes in LD shared with other populations turned out to be 45% with caucasoids, 20% with negroids and 10% with mongoloids.
(3) Only limited comparisons could be made for the HLA-DR and -D frequencies as these are not available for any well-defined African Negroid population.
(4) HLA-A11 appears with a low frequency in the Negroids (gf = 0.004) and the Caucasoids revealed an absence of HLA-Bw70.
(5) The frequencies of the alleles in this population of Japanese ancestry are highly different from those of Brazilian Caucasoid blood donors but rather similar to those of Brazilian Negroid donors.
(6) diameter was significantly higher in the albinos than in the negroid (P less than 0.05), whereas, with tumours of a size larger than 5 cm., there was no statistically significant difference between the albino and the negroid.
(7) The Dama of South West Africa are a Negroid people living as a reproductive isolate in the desert and semi-desert areas of the north-west of the country.
(8) Japanese tooth positions lie within the range shown for Caucasoid and Negroid persons.
(9) The HLA-A, B and C antigens were tested in 877 South African Negroids, 381 Coloured and 771 Caucasoids.
(10) It is claimed that separation of the negroid branch preceded the divergence of europeoids and mongoloids.
(11) The relative lack of the African component in their gene pool shows that they have interbred very little, if at all, with their negroid neighbours.
(12) The Fur, though an aboriginal negroid tribe, had genetic characteristics similar to Arabs.
(13) Salivary immunoglobulin and protein concentrations were generally similar in negroids and caucasoids, only a difference in IgE levels was significant.
(14) The Arab tribes had a genetic structure which was intermediate between that of the original negroid population of the Sudan and the Arabs to the north.
(15) In negroids BPH is more frequent than in Caucasians, while in Asiatic races BPH is less frequent.
(16) The Netherlands may be the only country in the world where non-negroid SCD patients are present in such a proportion to negroid SCD patients.
(17) Ultrastructural examination has led to characterize this bizarre disease by a switch from stage IV single melanosomes negroid type to small type I-III aggregated melanosomes (caucasoid phenotype of melanogenesis).
(18) The possible causes for this form of a low sexual dimorphism are as follows: A negative secular trend, with the assumption that the Zulu crania were larger than those of the reference populations of African Negroids before the start of the secular trend change.
(19) In this paper, we extend the study of the IGHG gene RFLPs in black African persons and in some other individuals characterized by a Negroid admixture.
(20) A case study is presented of a 44-year-old negroid male with epidermodysplasia verruciformis (EV), cutaneous carcinomas, and impaired cell-mediated immunity (CMI), infected with human papillomavirus type 8 and 17.