(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.
Kindred
Definition:
(n.) Relationship by birth or marriage; consanguinity; affinity; kin.
(n.) Relatives by blood or marriage, more properly the former; relations; persons related to each other.
(a.) Related; congenial; of the like nature or properties; as, kindred souls; kindred skies; kindred propositions.
Example Sentences:
(1) No woman is at greater risk for ovarian carcinoma than one who is a member of a hereditary ovarian carcinoma syndrome kindred and whose mother, sister, or daughter has been affected with this disease and with an integrally related hereditary syndrome cancer.
(2) An unusual spectrum of craniofacial and foot abnormalities has been detected within a large midwestern Amish kindred.
(3) 45Calcium has been used to compare the kinetics for the transport and bioaccumulation of this regulatory cation in keratinocyte cultures of a kindred with HPS (i.e., one HPS homozygote, one HPS obligate heterozygote, one normal family member, and healthy adult controls).
(4) In this study, six patients, the proband, his four siblings and a niece, representing a kindred of fifty-two subjects, were examined for aymptomatic cutaneous nodules mainly on the back and chest.
(5) Recently, a gene for ITD (DYT1) in a non-Jewish kindred was located on chromosome 9q32-34, with tight linkage to the gene encoding gelsolin (GSN).
(6) A four-generation 25-member kindred with Factor XI:C deficiency is reported.
(7) In a nationwide investigation in South Africa, 25 affected individuals in 15 Afrikaner kindreds have been studied.
(8) found linkage between manic depression and HRAS1 in a single large Amish kindred.
(9) Longevity analysis demonstrated elongation of life expectancy for kindred members, and there was an apparent rarity of premature cardiac events.
(10) The logarithm of the odds ratio between GTHR and c-erbA beta was 3.67, and therefore GTHR mapped to the c-erbA beta locus in this kindred.
(11) To investigate the possibility that the syndrome is caused by mutation in a tumor suppressor gene, we searched for loss of heterozygosity in 16 sporadic basal cell carcinomas, 2 hereditary basal cell carcinomas, and 1 hereditary ovarian fibroma and performed genetic linkage studies in five Gorlin syndrome kindreds.
(12) In the present study, we have analyzed the IF staining patterns of skin and fibroblast cultures from Marfan syndrome patients and normal first-degree relatives in nine Marfan kindreds.
(13) Consanguinity of the kindreds could not be established.
(14) Here we demonstrate that in this kindred, which shows linkage to chromosome 21 markers, there is a point mutation in the APP gene.
(15) It also abolishes the Aval site (CTCGGG) in exon VI, which can be directly detected with the enzymatic DNA amplification technique (PCR) and offers the possibility of direct analysis in carrier and prenatal diagnosis in kindreds with this mutation.
(16) Kindred S showed the effect in man of heterozygous and homozygous expression of a dominant negative form of c-erbA beta.
(17) Lifetime risk of dementia in early-onset FAD kindreds is consistent with an autosomal dominant inheritance model.
(18) A kindred with an X-autosome translocation and differential inactivation of the X chromosome is described.
(19) Depending on the size of the kindred, the pedigree automatically obtains a rectangular or circular appearance.
(20) The W family represents the largest such North American kindred yet reported.