(a.) Of or pertaining to Spain or its language; as, Hispanic words.
Example Sentences:
(1) This study was undertaken to determine whether the survival of Hispanic patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck was different from that of Anglo-American patients.
(2) Among non-Hispanic whites in the 1980s, Catholic total fertility rates (TFRs) were about one-quarter of a child lower than Protestant rates (1.64 vs. 1.91).
(3) Patients with major depression were less likely to use PCP, Blacks were more likely than Hispanics to use hallucinogens, and schizophrenics were less likely to use opioids.
(4) Although complete data were not available, it appeared that the incidence of breast cancer is lower in this population of Hispanic women than in Caucasian women.
(5) I do want to thank all the fans and some of the media people that are here today and my Dominican people and all the Hispanic's all over the world.
(6) The lower suicide rate for Hispanics relative to Anglos is seen for both males and females.
(7) Participants were 206 healthy, volunteer low-to-middle-income Mexican-American and non-Hispanic white (Anglo-American) families (623 individuals), each with a fifth or a sixth-grade child.
(8) To evaluate possible misclassification of smokers and nonsmokers, we compared self-reported cigarette consumption and serum cotinine levels in a sample of 743 Mexican American participants in the Hispanic Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (HHANES).
(9) The highest rates of reported illness are concentrated in the western states, 68% are non-Hispanic white women aged 35 years and older, and data on associated clinical findings suggest a multisystemic disorder.
(10) The actuarial survival at 2 years after grafting of Blacks, Hispanics and Asians was compared with that of Caucasians transplanted between 1971 and 1985 for aplastic anaemia, acute non-lymphocytic leukaemia and acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.
(11) Our discrepancy with findings from the National Survey of Family Growth is evidence of the cultural diversity in the US Hispanic population and indicates the importance of disaggregating by ethnicity or national origin when studying this population.
(12) Demographic analysis indicated that homeless children were predominantly Hispanic Americans.
(13) The present study demonstrates the importance of population-based lipid screening in Hispanic, Asian, or multiethnic children, where more than a third of the children have total cholesterol levels in need of dietary management.
(14) The findings indicate that the Children's Report of Parental Behavior Inventory (except the hostile control subscale), the Parent-Adolescent Communication Scale (open communication subscale only), and the Family Adaptability and Cohesion Evaluation Scales II appear to have sufficient cross-ethnic equivalence for English-speaking Hispanic samples.
(15) OMH added HIV infection to the six health priority areas after epidemiologic data showed that the representation of blacks and Hispanics was disproportionately high among persons reported with AIDS.
(16) Although Hispanic Americans have shared in the nationwide reduction in coronary artery disease over the past 25 years, mortality data indicate that coronary artery disease remains the leading cause of death in this population.
(17) In 1972, as a law student, she spent several months travelling around south Texas trying to boost registration among Hispanic people.
(18) Dropouts were more likely to be male, Black or Hispanic, or with no history of primary depression.
(19) Findings suggest that the interactive videodisc is a useful way to interest and help Hispanic adolescents learn ways of reducing their risk of contracting and spreading HIV infection through lifestyle practices.
(20) The limited data that are available for Hispanic populations suggest that there is at least a 10-fold difference in risk between individuals of Hispanic ancestry in Colorado and Mexicans in Mexico City.
Mestizo
Definition:
(n.) The offspring of an Indian or a negro and a European or person of European stock.
Example Sentences:
(1) Arteriolar muscularization was found in three of the 13 Aymaras and in two of the 12 Mestizos studied.
(2) An ultrastructural study of lung biopsy specimens from an adult mestizo highlander from La Paz (3800 m) and three lowlanders from London showed no significant difference in the thickness of the alveolar capillary wall, the thickness in the highlander being 0.65 micron and the range in the lowlanders being 0.57-0.69 micron.
(3) However the response of ventilation to hypoxia was statistically significant, lower in the Mongolian and Mestizo groups than in the Caucasian and Negro ones.
(4) Mexican mestizo pediatric patients with ALA revealed a significantly increased frequency of HLA-DR3 alone, or in its haplotype form HLA-A2, DR3, which confirms our previous observation in adult patients with ALA in the same ethnic group.
(5) However, the Mexican population is mainly composed of Mestizos (95%), who have a triracial admixture of Caucasian genes coming from the Spanish conquerors, black genes from the African slaves brought by the Spaniards to America, and an Oriental gene-pool derived from the natives.
(6) IgA heavy chain disease (alpha chain disease) was detected in a 46 year old South American (Colombian) of mixed Spanish and Indian (Mestizo) descent.
(7) The mestizo teacher and his family, who had come from the town to the Indian settlement, showed poorer hygienic standards and higher levels of Ascaris and Trichuris egg excretion than the Indian dwellers.
(8) The distribution of Gc types was investigated in an Indian group residing in Cuetzalan, Puebla, and in a Mestizo group from Mexico City.
(9) For midface augmentation the following implants are used: (1) The premaxillary lower nasal base implant, proposed in 1971, is indicated to correct a concave midfacial profile, frequent in Asian, black, and Mestizo patients from Latin America and in Caucasian patients with maxillonasal dysplasia or Binder's syndrome, after trauma, with excessive septum and nasal spine resections, and in nasal-maxillary sequels in cleft patients.
(10) In addition, 243 sera from five non-Indian (black) and mixed-Indian (mestizo) populations were studied.
(11) We studied 87 Mexican mestizo patients (82 men and 5 women) with definite ankylosing spondylitis (AS) with particular reference to juvenile and adult onset types.
(12) In comparison with those of published data for the other rural and urban Andean populations (Aymara, Quechua and Mestizo at high and low altitudes), the Aymara children of Wariscata were taller and heavier than other rural high altitude native children, but similar in height to urban high altitude children.
(13) The Spaniards mated freely with the Indians producing a mixed race called the Mestizo, who were immunologically more capable of defending themselves against various viruses, bacteria, and parasites brought over from the Old World.
(14) However, he does not seem to consider the possibility that the new nation state could be institutionally very different from the model of the colonial state, or the creole, mestizo state that came after it.
(15) Correlations for body measurement between members of 207 pairs of school-aged and 116 pairs of adult siblings in a mestizo farming community of the Colombian Andes are comparable to those from previous studies of well nourished urban-industrial samples, both in magnitude and pattern of heritabilities.
(16) In North American black and Brazilian mestizo populations DRB1*0102 (Dw20) was more prevalent.
(17) "The Indians are disappointed by Catholicism , which bears the mark of colonial rule and authoritarian mestizo priests.
(18) Allele frequencies for the ABO, Rh, MNSs, Duffy, Kidd, Lutheran, P and Lewis blood group systems in 207 persons whose 4 grandparents were born in the Monterrey Metropolitan area (MMA), grouped into 3 generations, were ascertained along with other related population from the MMA, Mestizos from Saltillo, Coahuila and Tlaxcala, and from the populations thought to have contributed to their genetic constitution (native Mexican Indians and Spanish).
(19) Our study searched for associations of HLA antigens and anaphylactoid purpura nephritis in Mexican mestizo patients.
(20) In the Mestizo population studied the major contribution comes from European sources and the secondary contributions from Mexican Indians; the contribution from African sources is minimal.