What's the difference between filicide and silicide?

Filicide


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of murdering a son or a daughter; also, parent who commits such a murder.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The administration of para-chloro-D, L-phenylalanine (PCPA) produces a high incidence of aggressive (filicidal) behavior in pre-, postpartum, and nulliparious rodents.
  • (2) Neither the parturition process nor severe food deprivation are strong causative factors in the precipitation of filicidal behavior.
  • (3) After briefly summarizing the allegorical implications of the various forgotten Oedipus myths and the father's fateful role within the Theban tragedy, this paper elaborates on those pederastic and filicidal inclinations that I believe to be universal among fathers.
  • (4) The retrospective nature of filicide research and the small sample size of cases exacerbated difficulties in carrying out such research, the inquest heard.
  • (5) A number of significant issues are dealt with including consequences of failure to elicit positive family history of affective disorder, suicide and filicide.
  • (6) Types of filicide were compared on a number of social and psychiatric characteristics and on their offence patterns and court disposals.
  • (7) The authors point to problems in differential diagnosis in the framework of other subjects like 'non-accidental poisoning', 'doctor-shopping' and 'filicide'.
  • (8) No one person or agency could have reasonably been expected to foresee that Mr Anderson would be that rare perpetrator, and Luke the rare victim, of a violent filicide.” Rosie Batty, named Australian of the year for 2015 because of her advocacy on family violence, said that this was a “monumental day” and it did bring a degree of closure for her.
  • (9) I would most definitely want them to know what filicide is and what the risks are so that every professional recognises those risk factors and they are incorporated into family violence education frameworks.” On Wednesday, a detective who questioned Luke last year was asked about the way she assessed his risk of harm, and why she concluded he was safe.
  • (10) Indeed, a history of familial double filicide raises the question of possible hereditary influences.
  • (11) Deaths were classified based on the total information available into group A: poor prognosis (n = 7), group B: treatable disease (n = 45), group C: minor disease (n = 32), group D: no disease (n = 19), group E: probably accidental (n = 4), and group F: probably filicide (n = 8).
  • (12) Most of the filicidal acts committed by these chronically impaired men resulted from isolated explosive behavior.
  • (13) Six types of maternal filicide were distinguished: battering mothers (36 cases), mentally ill mothers (24 cases), neonaticides (11 cases), retaliating mothers (9 cases), women who killed unwanted children (8 cases) and mercy killing (1 case).
  • (14) Latency of attack, intensity phases, and characteristics of the filicidal behavior were found to vary inversely with brain serotonin content, and be reversed or eliminated by replacement of serotonin i.e., via 5-hydroxytryptophan, serotonin's immediate precursor.
  • (15) The authors analysed the autopsic material of the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Belgrade related to a sixty-year period (1920-1980) and found 26 cases of filicide.
  • (16) Filicide is the term denoting murder of a child by one of his (her) parents.
  • (17) It lies solely on Greg Anderson.” But filicide, the act of a parent deliberately killing their child, was rare and there were no good risk assessment tools to determine the likelihood a parent might commit the crime, Gray said.
  • (18) On the basis of this finding, the authors concluded that filicide was not very frequent in this area.
  • (19) Compared with filicides, matricides were significantly older, were single, and more often suffered from mental illness and substance abuse.
  • (20) A survey of twelve families with 2 or more cot deaths showed that in two families the deaths were completely unexplained; in three the babies had a probably familial developmental disorder; in two the care of the infants was seriously at fault and could have contributed to death; and in five filicide was probable.

Silicide


Definition:

  • (n.) A binary compound of silicon, or one regarded as binary.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The microstructure of alloys in the range of 4 to 10% Si (by weight) are cellular and consist primarily of alpha-Ti and the silicide Ti5Si3.
  • (2) Special ceramic hard substances, such as silicides and borides, are used as separating agents for the casting of the secondary structure.
  • (3) In the oxide, Ni and Si are reduced to form nickel silicides.

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