(v. t.) The collective body of persons who live in one house, and under one head or manager; a household, including parents, children, and servants, and, as the case may be, lodgers or boarders.
(v. t.) The group comprising a husband and wife and their dependent children, constituting a fundamental unit in the organization of society.
(v. t.) Those who descend from one common progenitor; a tribe, clan, or race; kindred; house; as, the human family; the family of Abraham; the father of a family.
(v. t.) Course of descent; genealogy; line of ancestors; lineage.
(v. t.) Honorable descent; noble or respectable stock; as, a man of family.
(v. t.) A group of kindred or closely related individuals; as, a family of languages; a family of States; the chlorine family.
(v. t.) A group of organisms, either animal or vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in structure or development, more comprehensive than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of likeness. In zoology a family is less comprehesive than an order; in botany it is often considered the same thing as an order.
Example Sentences:
(1) The role of the family practitioner in antenatal care is discussed.
(2) The findings indicate that there is still a significant incongruence between the value structure of most family practice units and that of their institutions but that many family practice units are beginning to achieve parity of promotion and tenure with other departments in their institutions.
(3) It is recognized that caregivers encompass family members and nursing staff.
(4) PMS is more prevalent among women working outside the home, alcoholics, women of high parity, and women with toxemic tendency; it probably runs in families.
(5) 62.1% were from disrupted families (39.5% divorced, 12.9% remarried, and 9.7% widowed).
(6) Serum samples from 23 families, including a total of 48 affected children, were tested for a set of "classical markers."
(7) Among a family of 8 children, 4 presented typical clinical and biological abnormalities related to mannosidosis.
(8) Complementarity determining regions (CDR) are conserved to different extents, with the first CDR region in all family members being among the most conserved segments of the molecule.
(9) This result demonstrates that branching enzyme belongs to a family of the amylolytic enzymes.
(10) The correlates of three characteristics of familial networks (i.e., residential proximity, family affection, and family contact) were examined among a national sample of older Black Americans.
(11) During the study period four family outbreaks and seven recurrences of infection were observed.
(12) Because many wnt genes are also expressed in the lung, we have examined whether the wnt family member wnt-2 (irp) plays a role in lung development.
(13) Twelve families with Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome (WAS) were studied by linkage analysis using 10 polymorphic marker loci from the X-chromosome pericentromeric region.
(14) As players, we want what's right, and we feel like no one in his family should be able to own the team.” The NBA has also said that Shelly Sterling should not remain as owner.
(15) Family therapists have attempted to convert the acting-out behavioral disorders into an effective state, i.e., make the family aware of their feelings of deprivation by focusing on the aggressive component.
(16) Mutational mosaicism was used as a developmental model to analyze 1,500 sporadic and 179 familial cases of retinoblastoma from the world literature.
(17) In this paper, we report the cases of 4 male patients (mean age 32.7 yr) with right-ventricular dysplasia, that occurred in familial form.
(18) The frequency of gastric malignancies in the families of the women with gastric polyps was higher than in the controls and in men, 6.2, 3.1 and 2.4 percent, respectively (p less than 0.05, and p less than 0.025).
(19) The family comprises at least three variable (V) gene segments, three constant (C) gene segments, and three junction (J) gene segments.
(20) Obesity in the Pimas is familial and has complex relationships with non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, a common disease in this population.
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.