(n.) The murder of an infant born alive; the murder or killing of a newly born or young child; child murder.
(n.) One who commits the crime of infanticide; one who kills an infant.
Example Sentences:
(1) Her story is an incredible tale of triumph over tragedy: a tormented childhood during China's Cultural Revolution, detention and forced exile after exposing female infanticide – then glittering success as the head of a major US technology firm.
(2) Males who developed in utero between two female fetuses, and were thus exposed to relatively low testosterone concentrations during fetal development, were significantly more likely to exhibit infanticide--both before and after mating--than were males who developed between two male fetuses.
(3) Hamster litters were left undisturbed till day 7 to minimise infanticide.
(4) This suggests that the maintenance of the suppression of infanticide in mothers owes something to the special circumstances of lactation other than continued exposure to young.
(5) It is suggested that either legislation should be amended to prohibit abortion after 18 to 20 weeks, or abortion to full term should be permitted and the possibility of legislation for infanticide be envisaged.
(6) Historic episodes of mass infanticide and practices in other cultures, while often cited as warnings of moral peril, are difficult to apply to the problem of infant euthanasia.
(7) A case is here described in which a woman was convicted of infanticide, and attempted infanticide, having been charged with murder and attempted murder.
(8) Virtually all adult wild males exhibited infanticide when they were tested in their home cages (with either a 2-day-old or 7-day-old pup) or when they were placed into the cages of lactating wild female mice and their 2-day-old young.
(9) Although attacks by females rarely thwarted infanticide by male intruders, the behavior may acutely protect parental investment.
(10) Infanticide could be important to curb recent and future population growth and the resulting pressure on the land.
(11) The data essentially show that, in a house mouse population, there is a behavioral polymorphism in response to the coexisting multiple mechanisms which mediate the inhibition of infanticide.
(12) This was the most important impulse for the development of the legal medicine in Germany as the courts now found themselves constrained to hear physicians, barber surgeons or midwives in cases of abortion, infanticidal, poisoning, murder or manslaughter.
(13) Virtually all wild males exhibit infanticide prior to mating, but virrually all wild males were inhibited from exhibiting infanticide 3 weeks after mating whether they were placed into the cage of their former mate and her litter or into the cage of an unfamiliar female and her litter, similar to the effect of mating on the behavior of CF-1 male mice toward young.
(14) The hypothesis, advanced by Asch (Mt Sinai J Med NY 35:214-220, 1968), that a majority of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) cases are actually infanticides, is addressed by examination of age comparable infant homicide rates (United States, 1950-1974) and consideration of current theory regarding SIDS pathogenesis.
(15) Infant mortality through infanticide was recorded in undisturbed and tested hamsters.
(16) It is proposed, therefore, that this psychosis is in fact, in most instances, a form of ergotism and its signs and symptoms and consequences, including coincidental infanticide, themselves are actually manifestations of acute ergot poisoning.
(17) Finally, 35% of sows that produced cubs ceased lactation early, and this loss of entire litters was thought to be due to infanticide by dominant sows.
(18) The socio-sexual factors mediating the inhibition of pup-killing in previously infanticidal Swiss Webster male mice (Mus domesticus) were examined.
(19) Five percent of the sample ultimately committed suicide, and the probable incidence of infanticide was 4%.
(20) Identifiable incidents include infanticide, injury, deliberate neglect, neglect due to ignorance and poverty, and accidents or poisonings where abuse appears to have been a factor.
Patricide
Definition:
(n.) The murderer of his father.
(n.) The crime of one who murders his father. Same as Parricide.
Example Sentences:
(1) Macbeth has been viewed as a play about the oedipal crime of patricide.
(2) Patricide patients' fathers were more punitive and shaming than control patients' fathers, and control patients' fathers were more stimulating and depriving than patricide patients' fathers.
(3) Where did she find the strength for this audacious patricide?
(4) A 34-year-old housewife who was arrested for patricide confessed that she had also killed six newborn infants between 1975 to 1983.
(5) A sense of relief was felt following the patricide rather than remorse.
(6) Patricide patients' mothers were more overinvolved and tolerant than control patients' mothers.
(7) Seven schizophrenics who committed patricide and both personality-disordered patients had a cruel and unusual relationship with their father.
(8) There's some moral ambiguity – he'll rough up crims to get what he wants, he's not a very good husband, and his most trusted ally is a patricidal psychopath – but in theory, there's little to differentiate it from, say, Prime Suspect or Cracker.
(9) Alice Morgan – said patricidal psychopath, played with delicious wickedness by Ruth Wilson – is one of TV's most unusual sidekicks.
(10) As one French commentator pointed out : “It’s rare that we witness a patricide first hand.” Jean-Marie’s decision to express himself in Rivarol , where he called for an alliance with Russia to save “the white world” among other suggestions, was seen as a blatant challenge to his daughter and her entourage.
(11) Seventeen female parricides (14 matricides, 3 patricides) were identified: in a remand prison (11), a Special Hospital (5), and a Regional Secure Unit (1).
(12) Two of the patricides had no psychiatric disorder but retaliated against violent fathers.
(13) In this regard the film’s psychologically dark and patricidal energies are inescapable: when pressed about his mother, Leon replies “let me tell you about my mother”, and blasts the inquiring blade runner in the groin; when Roy demands of Tyrell, “I want more life, fucker”, it’s the first and only swear word in the film, all the stronger for it, and for being addressed to a “father” who has unfeelingly engineered him, and not out of love fathered him at all.
(14) With his family newspaper condemning the flabbergasting "patricide" of Angelino Alfano, the PdL secretary widely seen as Berlusconi's heir who emerged as leader of the rebels, the 77-year-old arrived at the senate around 25 minutes into Letta's make-or-break speech "Italy is running a risk that is potentially fatal, without remedy," the prime minister told MPs, warning them of the damage to the country's economy and image that a government collapse and eventual fresh elections would inflict.
(15) The authors studied 10 men charged with patricide, including 2 men charged with both patricide and matricide and compared them with 10 schizophrenic patients who did not commit any crime.
(16) The authors reviewed the records of 10 men charged with patricide, including one charged with double parricide, all of whom had been examined at the Forensic Psychiatry Service of Bellevue Hospital from 1970 to 1983.
(17) Eight patients who committed patricide were diagnosed as suffering from schizophrenic illness and 2 patients received a diagnosis of personality-disorder.