(n.) One of a race of a brown or copper complexion in the Malay Peninsula and the western islands of the Indian Archipelago.
(a.) Alt. of Malayan
Example Sentences:
(1) The majority of the patients were Chinese (78.0%), followed by Malays (11.5%), Indians (8.1%) and other minority races (2.4%).
(2) Women with little or no education, rural residents, and those of Malay ethnicity are found to give less reliable data.
(3) While 88.9% of the Malay infants were breast-fed, only 69.7% of the Indian infants and 42.3% of the Chinese infants were breast-fed.
(4) A settlement of Temiars, an aboriginal tribe residing in the north-eastern jungles of the Malay Peninsula, was selected for a study of their cardiorespiratory fitness.
(5) G6PD deficiency is common in all three ethnic groups (Malays, Chinese, and Indians) in Malaysia and screening is recommended.
(6) Racially the Malay drug abusers had the highest exposure rate (54.2%).
(7) There were no statistically significant differences in the immune status by sex and by ethnic groups (Chinese, Malays and Indians).
(8) There was a tendency for women in the 2nd group who failed to return within 6 weeks for interval sterilization to be Moslem Malays, to have a nuclear family, and to have 1 or no sons.
(9) Age-adjusted incidence rates among Chinese males and females were 17·3 and 7·3 per 100,000; among Malay males and females, the rates were 2·5 and 0·3 and among Indian males, 1·1.
(10) 90.9% of these were from Chinese and none from Malay patients.
(11) Most patients (76) were of Malay descent, while 52 patients were Chinese, and two came from elsewhere.
(12) The typical breast feeding mother was more likely to be a Malay, with lower family income and residing in the rural area.
(13) Almost 20% reacted positively at dilutions of 1:64 or higher and eight among the Orang Asli and Malays gave the highest titres of 1:256.
(14) Genetic distance analyses by both cluster and principal components models were performed between Koreans and eight other populations (Koreans in China, Japanese, Han Chinese, Mongolians, Zhuangs, Malays, Javanese, and Soviet Asians) on the basis of 47 alleles controlled by 15 polymorphic loci.
(15) It was also determined that Malay women were more likely to return to the clinic than Chinese or Indians and Pakistanis.
(16) National data show that the perinatal mortality amongst the Malays is higher than that of the Chinese but less than that of the Indians.
(17) They remain organised by ethnicity, but unlike in Raffles’ day, the PAP’s idea wasn’t to separate the Chinese, the Malays, the Indians and the rest, but to carefully integrate them – so the demographics of each block reflect the demographics of Singapore as a whole, in theory preventing the formation of volatile ethnic enclaves.
(18) This was an 8-mth-old Malay boy who was clinically diagnosed to have stage I Wilms' tumor.
(19) All the cases were Malays and most of the accidents occurred before the Hari Raya Idilfitri festive seasons.
(20) The results did not support an association between ISLE and acetylator status: the frequencies of slow acetylators in the ISLE patients who were Malaysian Chinese and Malay were 13 and 38% respectively.
Turanian
Definition:
(a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an extensive family of languages of simple structure and low grade (called also Altaic, Ural-Altaic, and Scythian), spoken in the northern parts of Europe and Asia and Central Asia; of pertaining to, or designating, the people who speak these languages.