(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).
Inuit
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) 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.
(2) The tuberculosis experience is an important part of modern Inuit history and an understanding of how they viewed it goes some way towards explaining some of the attitudes Inuit have toward the health system in the North today.
(3) While the rates of tuberculosis were quite low in the last group, which constitutes about 82% of the population of Canada, they were 16 times higher among Indians and 24 times higher among Inuit.
(4) Longitudinal observations made during the past two decades on the prevalence of chronic ear disease in Inuit Elementary School Children in the Eastern Canadian Arctic reveal that as the current segment of this population enters into the 1990's a significant decrease in the prevalence is occurring.
(5) But the album for which she is being rightly acclaimed, 50 Words for Snow, as well as cleverly weaving together some hauntingly beautiful melodies with a characteristically surrealist narrative, also perpetuates a widely held myth about the semantic capaciousness of the Inuit language.
(6) Overall prevalence rates for HBsAg were marginally higher among Inuit than Dene (3.9% and 2.9%, respectively; P less than 0.05), as were rates for anti-HBs (24.5% and 21.5%, respectively; P less than 0.01).
(7) Tuberculosis provided Canadian Inuit with a harsh and bitter lesson in how to be sick in the twentieth century.
(8) Whatever evolves, Inuit co-operation and advice is essential; their cultural identity must be respected if any project is to be successful.
(9) Today, the Copper Inuit family has lost its focus as the primary agent of socialization and learning, and many young Inuit now spend most of their time within the context of a greatly expanded peer group which has gradually acquired the values and aspirations of the southern adolescent sub-culture.
(10) Thirty-four infants (25 Inuit and 9 Caucasians) with protein-energy malnutrition and intractable diarrhea were treated with total parenteral nutrition (TNP) consisting of a casein hydrolysate, a soybean emulsion and dextrose.
(11) The vast territory has a population of more than 33,300 people, of whom 84% are Inuit.
(12) At the same time, Inuit family relations have undergone drastic changes as a result of population increase, population concentration, access to government housing, introduction of formal schooling, and the availability of social subsides.
(13) Mads Christensen, executive director of Greenpeace Nordic, confirmed the group had reputational problems with many Inuit because of its campaigns against seal culling in the 1970s and 80s.
(14) The original said Aqqaluk Lynge is the former president of the Inuit Circumpolar Council.
(15) In contrast to Caucasian populations, in the Inuit population the apoE polymorphism showed only a minor influence on the plasma lipid and (apo)lipoprotein levels, as evaluated by multiple regression analysis, with the exception of apoE levels.
(16) said Terry Audla, president of the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, which represents about 55,000 people.
(17) By the age of two years 69.2 percent of Dene, 63.5 percent of Inuit, 33.3 percent of non-native and 22.9 percent of Edmonton children had CMV antibody.
(18) It also heard David Cameron's environment adviser, millionaire environmentalist Zac Goldsmith, and an Inuit leader from Greenland both say climate change was already seriously affecting life around the world.
(19) Rates for colorectal cancer in Canadian Inuit are similar to those expected for the Canadian population as a whole and do not appear to be increasing.
(20) Prevalence and incidence rates for rheumatic diseases were found to be minimal among the Inuit people in the Keewatin District of the Northwest Territories, Canada.