(a.) Born or living first, or before the others, as a son, daughter, brother, etc.; first in origin. See Elder.
Example Sentences:
(1) By statistical analysis, we showed that the B27 haplotype carried by the eldest member with AS in each family was more likely to be associated with disease.
(2) The eldest patient was 49 years old, but 75% of the patients were younger than 20 years.
(3) He said he had left Rakhine, in Burma, with his eldest son three months ago.
(4) Elisabeth Haukeland’s eldest son and daughter both survived the massacre, and they aren’t going back to Utøya.
(5) In the case of a family with two children where one parent has an income of £54,000, the total amount of child benefit is currently £1,752 a year (£20.30 a week for the eldest child, plus £13.40 a week for the other child).
(6) The analysis of the body mass among the eldest men and women, especially, (60-70 years) shows that those with lower body weight are more capable of working at the age of pension.
(7) Arturo was the eldest of five brothers running the trafficking ring which is thought to control a significant part of the cocaine and heroin smuggled into the US.
(8) Shackling and ‘a full strip search’ On the morning of 21 October 2013, LaTonia Wilson was pulling out of her mechanic’s garage with her husband, Atheris Mann; her eldest son, Jessie Patrick; and their two-year-old son Marquise.
(9) The eldest of three siblings whose father worked for the Inland Revenue, James left school at 16 to work in a tax office herself, and in 1941 married Ernest White, of the Royal Army Medical Corps.
(10) We report the 113th case in the eldest known patient at the time of diagnosis.
(11) Bianca, Ms Rinehart's eldest daughter, said her younger sister Hope Welker "was pretty much at her wit's end" and felt "kicked in the stomach" after the way Hancock treated her.
(12) The eldest was 25 years of age, the youngest was 3 years.
(13) Trump’s eldest daughter, heiress-apparent to her father’s real estate empire, said she had worked with him for more than a decade and seen him hire people from “all walks of life”.
(14) Just because you say something on Twitter, doesn’t make it so.” Trump has previously said that he would leave his business operations to his three eldest children, Donald Jr, Eric and Ivanka, though whether he plans to continue with that idea was not clear from his tweets on Wednesday.
(15) Today he mentors young people who grew up in a similar situation to him, including Mark Duggan’s eldest son, Kamani.
(16) Mandela's eldest granddaughter Ndileka Mandela was among family members who visited him in hospital on Monday.
(17) They seemed to be discussing whether or not we should set off, but the eldest, who operated the boat, gave the go-ahead.
(18) Murdoch, 84, who is currently chairman and CEO of the company, will become executive co-chairman alongside his eldest son Lachlan.
(19) Donald Trump Jr, Trump’s eldest child, has insisted that Trump’s holdings would go into a trust managed by him and his siblings Eric and Ivanka Trump.
(20) It computes the likelihood of a complex pedigree allowing for many non-standard features including multiple alleles (up to four per locus), multiple mates, more than one mating in the eldest generation, consanguinity, missing or partially tested persons, and different recombination fractions between males and females.
Firstborn
Definition:
(a.) First brought forth; first in the order of nativity; eldest; hence, most excellent; most distinguished or exalted.
Example Sentences:
(1) Furthermore, outcomes were more positive for only children, firstborns, and children from two-child families than for all other comparison groups.
(2) Strong preferences for the firstborn to be male and for an alternation of sexes were also indicated.
(3) Results indicated that the measures of the home environment (including Caldwell's Home Observation for Measurement of the Environment [HOME] inventory) were not correlated with the measures of cognitive competence (Bayley Mental Development Index [MDI], Ordinal Scales of Psychological Development) except among firstborns.
(4) The clinical triad of a firstborn delivered vaginally to a young (teenage) mother has been previously noted among juvenile onset recurrent respiratory papillomatosis (JO-RRP) patients.
(5) The neonatal and infant mortality rates of firstborn are probably higher than those of later sibs (in Crulai and Tourouvre).
(6) In contrast with other reports, an excess of leukemia, primarily ANLL, occurred among second or later-born rather than firstborn children.
(7) This study examines differences between 80 firstborn and second-born twin pairs with respect to Apgar score, umbilical venous and arterial blood gas, and acid-base data.
(8) The risk of a firstborn with an autism spectrum disorder triples after a mother turns 35 and a father reaches 40.
(9) Compared with the living controls, the SIDS mothers had attended less prenatal examinations, more often delivered their babies at home; the SIDS parents were younger, and yet the SIDS infants were less often firstborns.
(10) Statistically significant differences favoring twin A, the firstborn, were found in 1-minute Apgar score, umbilical venous pH, PO2, and PCO2, and umbilical arterial PO2.
(11) In the largest study of its kind, researchers have shown that the risk of autism increases for firstborn children and children of older parents.
(12) Conflicting results concerning the affiliative personality of firstborns and later borns can be explained by considering the importance of the birth of a sibling and the age spacing between the siblings.
(13) Other theories include the firstborn's exposure to toxins.
(14) "It is interesting that we observe a distinct firstborn advantage in education, even though parents in modern society are more likely to be egalitarian in the way they treat their children."
(15) In addition to possible differences in methodology, discrepancies between the present findings and those of earlier studies may reflect a decline over the past 20 years in the percentage of male obsessive compulsives that were either firstborn or only children.
(16) While the Japanese had lower rates of infant deaths and deaths from perinatal conditions for firstborn infants, they had higher rates of sudden infant death syndrome, as did Chinese females.
(17) It is clear that we need to rethink law, entitlements and institutions around how we regulate information, without consenting to untold pages of unread, non-negotiable, we’ll-take-everything-but-your-firstborn-child terms and conditions.
(18) Next in line for success come firstborn boys – all 12 men to have walked on the moon were either eldest or only children.
(19) The firstborn was diagnosed with NEC in 19 (45%) of the cases, with the disorder occurring in the secondborn in 23 cases (55%).
(20) Different types of interaction between the mothers and their younger infants were related to attention-seeking behavior in the firstborn male and female siblings.