(n.) One of a peculiar race inhabiting Arctic America and Greenland. In many respects the Eskimos resemble the Mongolian race.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was variation at the EsD locus with EsD2 having a frequency of 0.176 in an Indian population, and 0.156 in an Eskimo population.
(2) An additional factor seems, however, to be that in Eskimo food polyunsaturated fatty acids of the omega-3 series replace those of the omega-6 series.
(3) The over-all prevalence was highest among the Eskimos (12.3% against 4.1% among the Copenhageners, P less than 0.001).
(4) Then followed Eskimos (14%) and Caucasians (2%) in decreasing order.
(5) The results are also presented for the Alaskan Eskimo in relation to hand, eye, auditory dominance and cognitive style.
(6) A series of 632 human mandibles was used to test temporal variations in two Aleut populations and spatial variations in four homogeneous Greenlandic Eskimo populations.
(7) An epidemiological study of the prevalence of refractive errors was made of the Eskimo population of the Norton Sound and Bering Straits region of Alaska.
(8) We reviewed rheumatic diseases in an Inupiat Eskimo population and found a high frequency of seronegative spondyloarthritides.
(9) Both prevalence and incidence rates of RA were significantly higher and the peak age of incidence was younger in the southeast Alaskan Indian population than in Alaskan Eskimo groups and the United States population in general.
(10) It is concluded that hepatitis B infection per se does not contribute significantly to the development of cirrhosis or to PLC, at least in the Eskimo population of Greenland.
(11) In this study we compare endogenous formation of prostacyclin (PGI), which is formed by the endothelial cell, and thromboxane (TXA), which is formed by platelets in 20 Eskimos and 20 age and sex matched Danish controls by measurement of the main urinary metabolites.
(12) Consistent with these findings Eskimos were found to have a nearly 2-fold longer bleeding time than Danes.
(13) The characteristic Eskimo and Aleut adult body proportion is established early in childhood.
(14) ESKIMO-3 is a new stabilized (insensitive to oxidation) fluid fish oil concentrate, 30 ml of which contains an amount of eicosapentaenoic acid and total n-3 fatty acids equivalent to the daily intake among Eskimos.
(15) The HLA-DPw gene frequencies in a population of 88 unrelated Danes and a population of 48 unrelated Greenland Eskimos were determined.
(16) We studied 19 Eskimo patients with alveolar hydatid disease from the north-western coast of Alaska for risk factors for infection with Echinococcus multilocularis.
(17) In a previous study we demonstrated that Alaskan Eskimos had the highest endemic incidence of invasive Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) disease.
(18) In detection of eyes showing shallow chambers in the Eskimo population (arbitrarily: ACD less than or equal to 2.0 mm) the van Herick slit-lamp test at temporal limbus yielded a sensitivity of 91%, a specificity of 53% and predictive values of a positive and a negative test of 30% and 96%, respectively.
(19) Pigmentation was noticed on or round the cornea in 44% of 257 Eskimos (East Greenland) and 25% of 189 Mongols (Japan), but no more than 4% of 795 Caucasians in Denmark.
(20) The gene was absent from or very rare in populations originating in East Asia (Taiwanese, Japanese, Filipinos, and Eskimos).
Indigenous
Definition:
(a.) Native; produced, growing, or living, naturally in a country or climate; not exotic; not imported.
(a.) Native; inherent; innate.
Example Sentences:
(1) A programme is described in which indigenous personnel are trained to provide culturally appropriate rehabilitation services for islanders of the Pacific Basin.
(2) Asian macaques are susceptible to fatal simian AIDS from a type D retrovirus, indigenous in macaques, and from a lentivirus, simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), which is indigenous to healthy African monkeys.
(3) Tony Abbott has refused to concede that saying Aboriginal people who live in remote communities have made a “lifestyle choice” was a poor choice of words as the father of reconciliation issued a public plea to rebuild relations with Indigenous people.
(4) Comparative rates of spontaneous loss of R factor-mediated resistance indicated that Serratia R factors are less stable in E. coli and K. pneumoniae transcipients than in the indigenous hosts.
(5) The dietary information on children with diarrhea came from focus groups with mothers in 3 marginal urban communities, 3 rural indigenous communities, and 4 rural Ladino communities.
(6) She said it was impossible to attribute the increase in Indigenous women’s incarceration rates to one specific factor, but law and order policies of federal and state governments should be examined.
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Bill Shorten backs prospect of Indigenous treaty to ‘move beyond constitutional recognition’ At a press conference, Turnbull rebuked Shorten for his lack of “discipline” on Q&A, which is, after all, the home of reasoned and reasonable political discourse.
(8) Every Indigenous person has felt it Read more But on Friday he received the high-profile support of billionaire James Packer who said the booing had made him “ashamed to be Australian”.
(9) In this article the epidemiologic aspects of these diseases are discussed, with particular emphasis on exportation from their indigenous areas in Africa and on the occurrence of secondary cases.
(10) After winning his prize, Malcolm Turnbull must learn from Abbott's mistakes Read more Abbott appointed Warren Mundine to head his hand picked advisory council on Indigenous affairs.
(11) Read more “We know Tafe can be transformative for people who are doing it hard, bringing new skills to Indigenous communities, helping close the gender pay gap, empowering mature-age workers with the chance to retrain – not standing by while people from Holden and Ford are cast on the scrapheap,” Shorten will say.
(12) Indigenous people are more than three times as likely to have diabetes, twice as likely to have signs of chronic kidney disease, and more than four times as likely to be in the advanced stages of chronic kidney disease.
(13) Massive protests in the 1990s by Indian, Latin American and south-east Asian peasant farmers, indigenous groups and their supporters put the companies on the back foot, and they were reluctantly forced to shelve the technology after the UN called for a de-facto moratorium in 2000.
(14) The diets of the Inuit, as of all Indigenous People, are not comprised solely of the historically traditional foods; however these foods are still vitally important as a source of nutrients and cultural definition.
(15) The results are consistent with the hypothesis that mice are more responsive immunologically to antigens of nonindigenous bacteria than they are to antigens of certain microbes indigenous to their gastrointestinal tracts.
(16) Malcolm Turnbull is facing a fresh outbreak of internal dissent over the proposal to recognise Indigenous Australians in the constitution before talks about the referendum on Thursday with the Labor leader, Bill Shorten.
(17) Previously, only incomplete information was available regarding the indigenous bacterial flora of the lower intestinal tracts of these coprophagic animals.
(18) Indigenous man's death in custody blamed on NT 'paperless arrest' powers Read more In line with the findings of the royal commission, Cavanagh said the increased number of Indigenous people in custody would likely lead to a proportionate increase in custodial deaths.
(19) In contrast, in the second model, in which germfree mice were monoassociated with one or the other of the Lactobacillus strains, only the strain indigenous to the mouse formed dense layers on the epithelia of the nonsecreting portions of the stomachs, although both strains maintained high population levels throughout the gastrointestinal tracts of the animals.
(20) It hurts indigenous Irish businesses whose main trade links are with the UK.