(a.) Belonging to races or nations; based on distinctions of race; ethnological.
(a.) Pertaining to the gentiles, or nations not converted to Christianity; heathen; pagan; -- opposed to Jewish and Christian.
Example Sentences:
(1) The prevalence of 24.4% among Mexican American men was similar to that among men from other ethnic backgrounds.
(2) Furthermore, their distribution in various ethnic groups residing in different districts of Rajasthan state (Western-India) is also reviewed.
(3) Despite a 10-year deadline to have the same number of ethnic minority officers in the ranks as in the populations they serve, the target was missed and police are thousands of officers short.
(4) The results were compared with those obtained by Hess and Goldblatt, and were further analyzed for possible differences by age, sex, ethnicity, and family size.
(5) Relative to the perceived severity of their asthma, both Maoris and Pacific Islanders lost more time from work or school and used hospital services more than European asthmatics using A & E. The increased use of A & E by Maori and Pacific Island asthmatics seemed not attributable to the intrinsic severity of their asthma and was better explained by ethnic, socioeconomic and sociocultural factors.
(6) These results might help to explain why only a minority of individuals with a susceptible HLA type develop uveitis, as well as the variable incidence of disease in HLA-identical populations of different ethnic backgrounds.
(7) Broad-based secular comprehensives that draw in families across the class, faith and ethnic spectrum, entirely free of private control, could hold a new appeal.
(8) Care for black and minority ethnic communities is seen as a "major faultline in mental health".
(9) The impact of ethnicity on the stress process in old age was examined using two surveys of Australians aged 60 years and older.
(10) In north-west Copenhagen, among the quiet, graffiti-tagged streets of red-brick blocks and low-rise social housing bordering the multi-ethnic Nørrebro district, police continued to cordon off roads and search a flat near the spot where officers killed a man believed to be behind Denmark’s bloodiest attacks in over a decade.
(11) Logistic regression analysis was used to determine the relationship of ethnicity to diagnosis in both outpatient and inpatient samples.
(12) Analysis according to clinical importance, gestation at booking, maternal age, parity, birth order, ethnic origin, and certainty of gestational age.
(13) Differences in prevalence in these areas, and between different ethnic groups, are discussed and compared with previous studies in Southern Africa.
(14) Late stage at diagnosis is common among Filipino and ethnic Hawaiian woman, and their risk of death is 1.5-1.7 times that of Caucasian, Chinese, and Japanese women with the disease, even after adjustment for age, extent of disease, and socio-economic status.
(15) Paradigm relies heavily on social science research and analysis to help companies identify and address the specific barriers and unconscious biases that might be affecting their diversity efforts: things like anonymizing resumes so that employers can’t tell a candidate’s gender or ethnicity, or modifying a salary negotiation process that places women and minorities at a disadvantage.
(16) However, during the last four years 1980-1983, no significant difference between ethnic groups was observed.
(17) We studied the incidence and mortality of stroke in northern Israel to determine possible reasons for the differences previously found in mortality from this condition between the sex and ethnic groups in Israel as a whole.
(18) The majority (70) were of the Han ethnic group; 24 out of 41 Hainanese belonged to the Li ethnic group.
(19) The consequences for Syria have been multiple massacres, ethnic cleansing, torture, a humanitarian crisis and the risk of the country's breakup.
(20) There are no credible reports of ethnic Russians facing threats in Ukraine.
Ethnology
Definition:
(n.) The science which treats of the division of mankind into races, their origin, distribution, and relations, and the peculiarities which characterize them.
Example Sentences:
(1) These works from Benin are equal to the very finest examples of European casting technique,” wrote Professor Felix von Luschan , formerly of the Berlin Ethnological Museum.
(2) Skeletal development is influenced by sex and ethnological factors.
(3) The pattern of ischaemic strokes in women aged 15-45 was similar to that observed in Western countries, though our patients differed ethnologically and in dietary habits.
(4) We know from many ethnological field research reports that the medicine man employs in his healing procedures - among other things - dream interpretation, (auto-) hynosis, and healing suggestion, advises the sick, uses imaginative techniques, and initiates group catharsis, i.e.
(5) Neither the model of Oedipal castration anxiety nor the model of culture-specific pathogenicity, commonly adduced in psychiatric and ethnological literature, explain these phenomena.
(6) A survey of the ethnological backgrounds of the individuals reported to date with the Los Angeles variant showed multiple origins that could be explained by an ancient and widespread gene mutation or, more probably, by further biochemical heterogeneity.
(7) So, an ethnological haematology is superimposed on the geographical haematology of which it can modify outlines.
(8) Certain differences emerged in the geographical distribution of these tumours in the Northern and Southern regions of the Sudan-regions which differ both ethnologically and geographically-thus suggesting possible roles played by racial and environmental factors in this respect.
(9) The model developed by Arthur Kleinmann asks for universal validity for every form of medicine and leads by its ethnological view on our medicine to interesting conclusions.
(10) This dearth of information due to lack of local medical personnel could be alleviated by a combined medical and ethnological study.
(11) Yet, its social and demographic implications have not been fully appreciated in ethnological literature, except partially in 1 instance.
(12) To this end an examination was made as to the cultural-historical side with the Christian and stoical tradition as well as to the ethnologic-psychological side, especially with the aspect of inferiority and pride taking into consideration the reflection of these problems in the so-called "generation of 1898".
(13) The cause of death has been reconstructed, using parallels taken from ethnological and forensic medical research.
(14) The use of an ethnological model--the concept of "Guardians of Culture"--allows for the study of the problem from the point of view of a reassessment of self in terms of a cultural role.
(15) From the perspective of psychiatric ethnology, the dybbuk is a culture-bound syndrome viewed as a working alliance between society and a selected group of deviants.
(16) The apocalyptic threat of AIDS, combined with recent ethnological developments, is promoting an anthropological "rediscovery of sex."
(17) This essay is, therefore, an effort to extend the political economy of health into the ethnological domain of community research.
(18) An ethnological controversy over the origin and evolution of decorative art is documented for the period 1896-1904 and is used to test the relevance in anthropology of Thomas Kuhn's outline of the structure of scientific revolutions.
(19) Surgeons and physicians were valued not only for their professional skills in the field, but for the pursuit of botany, zoology and geology, and in many cases for ethnological studies as well.
(20) Of particular significance for ethnology is the finding of two skulls in which the jaws have been replaced before modelling by adapted pigs' mandibles.