(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.
Genealogy
Definition:
(n.) An account or history of the descent of a person or family from an ancestor; enumeration of ancestors and their children in the natural order of succession; a pedigree.
(n.) Regular descent of a person or family from a progenitor; pedigree; lineage.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was concluded that, when coupled with genealogical information, assays of alpha-glucosidase in extracts of lymphocytes were useful for identifying heterozygous individuals with a reasonably high degree of probability.
(2) The genealogic inquiry dealth with 46 members of 5 generations.
(3) This genealogical reconstruction is a strong argument in favor of the genetic homogeneity of MyD in the SLSJ region.
(4) ++Clinico-genealogical and structural-dynamic analyses were made of endogenous psychoses, paranoid in structure under conditions of their accumulation in an isolated population.
(5) It is hoped that agreement can be reached as to bacteriologic genealogy; perhaps then the specific pathogenic manifestations will be clarified.
(6) The genealogies vary in tree topology and in branch lengths.
(7) The results of genealogical investigation are presented.
(8) Analysis of the genealogic tree of the complete family groups showed that the apoprotein (apo) AIMilano is transmitted as an autosomal dominant trait, all carriers coming from a single mating couple, living in the eighteenth century.
(9) The genealogical reconstruction showed that 15 of the 57 obligate carriers of the HH gene could be traced back to a unique ancestor in the 18th century.
(10) Sister sites Friends Reunited Dating and Genes Reunited, a genealogy service, will remain subscription-based, charging £49.50 and £9.95 respectively for a six-month subscription.
(11) These findings, supported by simulation results, allow one to apply the theoretical results of the coalescence process directly to the allelic genealogy.
(12) The present study data confirm the concept, formed on the basis of genealogical analysis, that genetical factors involved in the determination of MZ and DZ multiple birth are of definitely common character.
(13) To compute the likelihood for a sample of unrecombined nucleotide sequences taken from a random-mating population it is necessary to sum over all genealogies that could have led to the sequences, computing for each one the probability that it would have yielded the sequences, and weighting each one by its prior probability.
(14) Age changes in the pubic symphyses of 142 Cayo Santiago rhesus monkeys (known age, sex and maternal genealogy) are described.
(15) Features of the structure of the ancestral genealogy are thereby illuminated, and the dependence and interactions between founders with regard to the descent of their genes to the current population may be quantified.
(16) The occurrence of both types of isopranyl glycerol ethers in methanogenic bacteria supports the proposal that they have a close genealogical relationship to the extremely halophilic and thermoacidophilic bacteria.
(17) Analysis of the patterns of segregation in the metastatic tumor cells permitted the development of a genealogy of tumor progression in this patient and the development of a model of tumor progression which describes the accumulation of selectively neutral and advantageous segregations in metastatic tumor cells.
(18) In our study, the genealogic evaluation includes asymptomatic subjects with microangiopathy.
(19) However, the concordance between genealogical relationship and multivariate genetic divergence in morphology is much more complex.
(20) The data obtained demonstrate heterogeneity of this form of childhood schizophrenia, confirmed as well by genealogical studies in a comparative age aspect.