What's the difference between descent and filiation?

Descent


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of descending, or passing downward; change of place from higher to lower.
  • (n.) Incursion; sudden attack; especially, hostile invasion from sea; -- often followed by upon or on; as, to make a descent upon the enemy.
  • (n.) Progress downward, as in station, virtue, as in station, virtue, and the like, from a higher to a lower state, from a higher to a lower state, from the more to the less important, from the better to the worse, etc.
  • (n.) Derivation, as from an ancestor; procedure by generation; lineage; birth; extraction.
  • (n.) Transmission of an estate by inheritance, usually, but not necessarily, in the descending line; title to inherit an estate by reason of consanguinity.
  • (n.) Inclination downward; a descending way; inclined or sloping surface; declivity; slope; as, a steep descent.
  • (n.) That which is descended; descendants; issue.
  • (n.) A step or remove downward in any scale of gradation; a degree in the scale of genealogy; a generation.
  • (n.) Lowest place; extreme downward place.
  • (n.) A passing from a higher to a lower tone.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These results suggest that the pelvic floor is affected by progressive denervation but descent during straining tends to decrease with advancing age.
  • (2) Blood samples were collected from an antecubital vein at sea level (S1), in a base camp at 1515 m prior to the summit ascent (S2), on the summit at 3285 m after 6.5 hours of climbing (S3), at base camp immediately after the descent (S4), and at sea level following a trail descent from the base camp (S5).
  • (3) A vaginal repair was not detectable radiologically and it did not correct a posterior descent.
  • (4) From the decreased alignment at the N-terminus and the presence of additional residues compared with bacterial phosphorylases, we conclude that the regulatory sequences that also carry the phosphorylation site in the muscle enzyme were joined to a presumed ancestral precursor gene by gene fusion after separation of the eukaryotic and prokaryotic lines of descent.
  • (5) It was determined that in the doses used, 4-MAPC failed to prevent testicular descent.
  • (6) With grievous amazement, never self-pitying but sometimes bordering on a sort of numbed wonderment, Levi records the day-to-day personal and social history of the camp, noting not only the fine gradations of his own descent, but the capacity of some prisoners to cut a deal and strike a bargain, while others, destined by their age or character for the gas ovens, follow "the slope down to the bottom, like streams that run down to the sea".
  • (7) The patients ranged in age from 15 to 69 years (mean, 37) and were predominantly male (14 patients) and white (only 1 was of oriental descent).
  • (8) Fifty-six (92%) of patients dying from pulmonary embolism were of African descent while 5 (8%) were of East Indian descent.
  • (9) It seems to adequately provide the additional needed lift when nipple descent has been no more than 1.5 to 2 cm below the inframammary crease.
  • (10) Using chi 2 analysis, we found that failure of external version was significantly associated with obesity, descent of the breech into the pelvis, decreased fluid, and fetal back positioned posteriorly.
  • (11) The open-sea dives were carried out with an average speed of descent of 3.95 feet per second and an average rate of ascent of 3.50 feet per second.
  • (12) Mortality levels of 100% for Culex quinquefasciatus and Musca domestica test insects were recorded under normal operating conditions during routine scheduled passenger flights with disinsection procedures undertaken at "blocks-away" or at "top-of-descent".
  • (13) Irwin said both Mohamed and CF were British citizens of Somali descent who had travelled to Somaliland – CF in 2009 and Mohamed in 2007.
  • (14) Through this technique, testicular descent can be observed in about 50% of male fetuses examined at weeks 28-30.
  • (15) Descent of a prosthesis below the desired inframammary crease is an infrequent but disturbing complication of augmentation mammaplasty, which may occur for a number of reasons.
  • (16) The percentage of women with the descent of uterus and vagina, uterus displacement and effort urine incontinence was found to increase with age, length of employment and number of deliveries, particularly high percentage being the one relating to women lifting, just once, heavy objects.
  • (17) Since the anterior colporrhaphy according to Stoeckel or Kelly is not capable of curing severe forms of stress incontinence with rotational descent of the urethra, our results show that an additional retropubic urethropoly is desirable and justified in these cases.
  • (18) The amyloid fibril protein seen in patients of Portuguese, Japanese, and Swedish descent in the U.S. mainly consists of a variant form of transthyretin (also called prealbumin) with the substitution of methionine for valine at position 30.
  • (19) This raises the possibility of two lines of descent from a common ancestor.
  • (20) The precise identities of the alleles are irrelevant to the linkage analysis so long as identity-by-descent and linkage-phase information are preserved.

Filiation


Definition:

  • (n.) The relationship of a son or child to a parent, esp. to a father.
  • (n.) The assignment of a bastard child to some one as its father; affiliation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Previous results in connection with the diverse filiation variables.
  • (2) The ultrastructural patterns of the storage cells are described compared to descriptions in the literature and the question of their mastocytic or macrophagic filiation is discussed.
  • (3) These results do not contradict the hypothesis of a possible filiation between avian and mammalian orthomyxoviruses.
  • (4) The aim of this study was to establish the frequency of serologies positive to Borrelia burgdorferi in patients with non-filiated arthritis and in other well defined rheumatic diseases.
  • (5) All patients showed complete remission which was maintained for 6 months after the halt in treatment in the cases of the UC and non-filiated colitis.
  • (6) Data obtained by the investigation of 2000 families demonstrate the hereditary features and their value as an evidence in a filiation cases.
  • (7) When filiation research shows that paternity is possible, French legislation recommends the calculation of two coefficients: 1. paternity probability (CP); 2. percentage of random men excluded from paternity by genetic markers of the mother and the child (PEme).
  • (8) One patient had clear cell renal carcinoma and other had lymphatic metastasis of malignant melanoma without filiation of the primary tumor.
  • (9) The study of the chromosomal rearrangements differentiating the Chimpanzees and the others Anthropoids and Man allows us to propose a filiation of ancestral species.
  • (10) Based on a clinical observation of a paranoid filiation delirium, the authors raise the fundamental question of the nature of psychotic structure itself.
  • (11) It was shown that unsaturated mycolates and oxomycolic acids were not directly related, whereas a metabolic filiation was confirmed between oxomycolate and wax ester mycolate: the latter derived from the former by a Baeyer-Villiger oxidation step, as has been proposed on the basis of structural considerations.
  • (12) Study of the genetic markers confirmed the filiation.
  • (13) This histoenzymatic duality is perhaps related to the histogenetic filiation of the intimal thickening cells.
  • (14) Distinctions also exist among societies where there is almost no visible separation in the activities of marriage or prostitution and in societies where the nature of work and filiation differ.
  • (15) The intersection sign and the trochlear eminence in isolated patello-femoral osteoarthritis allows the direct filiation between dysplasia of the trochlea and osteoarthritis to be confirmed.
  • (16) The cell type distribution is compatible with the idea that the lymphocytes are the precursors of plasmacytes, proplasmacytes being transitional forms, but no direct filiation scheme can actually be deduced from these experiments.
  • (17) As Igh-6b production is not affected by the suppression, these T splenocytes are believed to influence B cells more or less committed to Igh-1b or Igh-3b production rather than more precocious Igh-6b (IgM of b haplotype) carrying precursors in the classical IgM-IgG filiation pathway.
  • (18) PSA) to determine the non-filiated origin of a metastasis.
  • (19) Each protein is encoded by a separate gene and there is no direct filiation between the two genes.
  • (20) The considerable amount of information was statistically studied with a computer, obtaining data on the following aspects: Filiation, frequency and percentage of every answer.