(n.) One of the half-breed descendants of whites and Indians; a mestizo; -- so called throughout Central America. They are usually of a yellowish orange tinge.
Example Sentences:
(1) The dietary information on children with diarrhea came from focus groups with mothers in 3 marginal urban communities, 3 rural indigenous communities, and 4 rural Ladino communities.
(2) The number of deciduous teeth in a sample of rural Ladino Guatemalan children was counted every 3 months through 24 months of age, and at 6-month intervals from 24 to 36 months.
(3) No significant difference in fat pattern exists between the high SES Ladino and high SES European children.
(4) All systems produced satisfactory cattle performance, but fescue-ladino clover combined with fescue-red clover required minimum inputs of harvested feed and maintained excellent stands during 6 yr.
(5) Mongol spots were present in 9.6% of the white babies, 95.5% of the black babies, 81% of the Asiatic babies, and 70.1% of ladino infants.
(6) Of these, 79.5% were white, 6.2% were black, 11.2% were ladinos, and 2.6% were Asiatic.
(7) Among Ladinos, the most frequently mentioned reason was fear of contraception or fear of side effects.
(8) Mayan boys are 6.60 cm shorter than ladinos at the age of TO and are estimated to be 7.71 cm shorter than the ladinos at adulthood.
(9) Low SES urban ladinos have the largest variability.
(10) The analysis was conducted on two groups of farmers, the Spanish-speaking Ladino population found in Eastern Guatemala and the Quiche-speaking Mayan population found in the mountains of Western Guatemala.
(11) The more prosperous Western group termed ladinos, showed they had had more illness which had also lasted longer, as well as higher levels of symptoms.
(12) The present study reports 5,029 length and weight measurements as well as percentile distributions for a mixed longitudinal series of 1,119 rural Guatemalan Ladino children.
(13) Ladinos is a term applied to persons whose style of life is not predominantly Indian.
(14) Significant statistical contrasts (t-tests) of these means show Mayan boys reach the age of "take-off" (TO; the onset of the adolescent growth spurt) 1.45 years later, achieve peak height velocity (PHV) 1.68 years later, and continue growing for about 2.0 years longer than do the ladino boys.
(15) )-ladino clover (Trifolium repens L.) or 2) Kentucky blue-grass (Poa pratensis L.)-white clover (Trifolium repens L.).
(16) The relative amount of subscapular fat increases from the high SES Ladinos and high SES Europeans, to the low SES Ladinos, to the very low SES Indians.
(17) System 2 lambs were born in January and February and grazed pure stands of alfalfa or ladino clover after weaning.
(18) Family planning efforts need to incorporate different approaches for Ladino and Indian women.
(19) These groups are high socioeconomic status (SES) children of Ladino (mixed Spanish and Indian) ancestry, high SES children of European ancestry, low SES Ladino children, and very low SES Indian children.
(20) Growth patterns in head and chest circumferences are reported for a mixed-longitudinal sample of rural Guatemalan Ladino children from birth to 7 years of age.
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.