(a.) Of or pertaining to a son or daughter; becoming to a child in relation to his parents; as, filial obedience.
(a.) Bearing the relation of a child.
Example Sentences:
(1) The genetic management of the African green monkey breeding colony was discussed in relation to the difference in distribution of phenotypes of M and ABO blood groups between the parental (wild-originated) and the first filial (colony-born) populations.
(2) Factors affecting the development of filial preferences in chicks were investigated.
(3) Recent studies have attempted to test predictions from an interpretation of filial imprinting as a form of associative learning.
(4) The results indicate that the extend to which stimulus movement enhances filial imprinting depends on the relation between the chicks behavior and the timing of the stimulus movement.
(5) The Chinese attitude is explained in part by well-known features of traditional Chinese culture, such as filial piety and familism.
(6) Results indicate that prematurely stimulated chicks require species-typical auditory and visual stimulation earlier in postnatal development than do normally reared chicks to direct their filial behavior.
(7) Usually, 1 sequence developed in a parental generation host individual that was infected per os as a larva and the other 2 developed concurrently in a filial host larva that was infected transovarially.
(8) A nonparametric analysis of the observed proportions of mice expressing parental phenotypes in second filial, two first backcross and one second backcross generations confirmed the polymorphism to be genetically determined and consistent with a single-locus mode of inheritance.
(9) These results demonstrate the importance of normal social experience in the development of the visual imprinting of filial behavior in ducklings.
(10) The results seem to support the general hypothesis that creativity is related to parental identification as a function of a less conventional sex-role stereotype, and the more specific hypothesis that there is a relation between paternal masculinity-femininity and filial creativity.
(11) Several of the young people she interviewed saw filial piety as a basic requirement in a spouse .
(12) Both the transovarial and the filial infection rates appear to be very low.
(13) The present study describes the growth abnormalities of cultured human skin fibroblasts derived from normal-appearing cutaneous biopsies of ACR genotypes and a portion of the clinically asymptomatic ACR progeny, first filial generation, and their differential susceptibility to transformation by Kirsten murine sarcoma virus.
(14) The marked variability of psychiatric and neurological features of Huntington's chorea is described in a large family consisting of 31 members of two filial generations and the parenteral generation, of which 13 members showed manifest signs of the disease, while two further members died probably in a preliminary stage of the disease.
(15) Analysis of the offspring body weights on Days 1, 7 and 21 of lactation revealed consistently and generally significant lower mean values in the high-dose male and female animals of all filial generations.
(16) She internalises this filial duty so completely as to take on herself a duty of despising her mother, and, by extension, all the women around her.
(17) Filial motivations reflect the values Koreans are aspiring for today that consolidate the caring relationships between adult children and their elderly parents.
(18) The present experiments indicate that the filial response to conspecifics is dependent on olfactory experience.
(19) The reaction to X-rays has so far been followed through 9 filial generations.
(20) As the family-kinship system of Korean immigrants changes toward the conjugal family, it is contended that their traditional expectation of filial piety should be modified.
Finial
Definition:
(n.) The knot or bunch of foliage, or foliated ornament, that forms the upper extremity of a pinnacle in Gothic architecture; sometimes, the pinnacle itself.
Example Sentences:
(1) Finially, on the basis of the natural history of the disease, a "second-look" operation is recommended.
(2) 50 nm across and 90 nm long, consists of a stack of two disks and a ball, similar in shape to a finial.