(a.) Of or pertaining to a mother; becoming to a mother; motherly; as, maternal love; maternal tenderness.
Example Sentences:
(1) In each sheep there was a significant negative correlation between the glucose and corticosteroid concentrations in both maternal and fetal plasma, and there were positive correlations between the maternal and fetal plasma concentrations of glucose, and between the glucose and fructose concentrations of fetal plasma.
(2) These results indicate that HBV markers in cord blood are either false-positive or due to contamination by maternal blood rather than an indication of in utero infection.
(3) Maternal diabetes and antihistamine use during the last 2 weeks of pregnancy were associated with significantly higher rates of retrolental fibroplasia, whereas toxemia was associated with lower rates.
(4) As many girls as boys receive primary and secondary education, maternal mortality is lower and the birth rate is falling .
(5) No evidence was found of reactivation of the inactive (paternal) allele or inactivation of both maternal and paternal alleles.
(6) Tables provide data for Denmark in reference to: 1) number of legal abortions and the abortion rates for 1940-1977; 2) distribution of abortions by season, 1972-1977; 3) abortion rates by maternal age, 1971-1977; 4) oral contraceptive and IUD sales for 1977-1978; and 5) number of births and estimated number of abortions and conceptions, 1960-1975.
(7) Maternal plasma levels of cortiocotrophin-releasing factor (CRF) have been measured in abnormal pregnancy states to assess their potential as biochemical markers for at-risk pregnancies.
(8) In addition, the findings suggest a need for a supply of glucose of fetal origin for cells that are responsible for increased PGFM concentrations in the maternal uteroplacental circulation.
(9) Sires of the cows had been divergently selected on yearling weight (YW) and total maternal (MAT) EPD to form four groups: high YW, high MAT EPD; high YW, low MAT EPD; low YW, high MAT EPD; and low YW, low MAT EPD.
(10) In this study, tritiated leucine placed on the isolated maternal side of amniochorion with adherent decidua was incorporated into newly synthesized tritiated human decidual prolactin.
(11) Child age was negatively correlated with mother's use of commands, reasoning, threats, and bribes, and positively correlated with maternal nondirectives, servings, and child compliance.
(12) There were 4 spontaneous first trimester abortions and 21 live-born neonates without major problems related to the treatment or to the maternal disease.
(13) The skill of the surgeon was not a significant factor in maternal deaths.
(14) The relationships of birth weight and maternal diabetes to the development of obesity were examined at 5-19 yr of age in the offspring of Pima Indian women.
(15) According to a Guttmacher Institute review (pdf), about 9% of maternal deaths in India are from complications of unsafe abortions.
(16) There was one (4%) maternal death, consistent with predicted mortality (TRISS methodology).
(17) These results suggest that bPAG is probably synthesized by trophoblast binucleate cells and stored in granules prior to delivery into the maternal circulation after cell migration.
(18) The maternal age of children with CONH was significantly less than for the cerebral-palsied children which, in turn, was significantly less than for the FAS children.
(19) This showed that maternal (but not paternal) smoking was associated with significant increase in rates of lower respiratory infection and lower respiratory symptoms during the child's first 2 years.
(20) Thus, we could not detect an embryotoxic effect of 1 h of maternal insulin-induced hypoglycemia beginning at day 10.6 of development.
Matriarch
Definition:
(n.) The mother and ruler of a family or of her descendants; a ruler by maternal right.
Example Sentences:
(1) But the matriarch of women who toke is Nancy Botwin ( Mary-Louise Parker ) in the long-running TV series Weeds .
(2) Many say that female “water protectors”, in some cases drawing on matriarchal tribal structures, are the core spiritual leaders strategizing how to block the “black snake” pipeline and planning actions to stand up to a police force that has gone to great lengths to defend an oil corporation .
(3) Among the remaining patients was a divorced mother of four with a failing liver who was engaged to be remarried; a second world war " Rosie Riveter " who had trouble speaking because of a stroke; and Ma'Dear, an ailing matriarch with long, braided hair, renowned for her cooking and the strict but loving way she raised 12 children.
(4) The same day, another family, in the corner and speaking a foreign language, huddles around a matriarch quite literally kept alive by machines.
(5) She played matriarchal leads in two BBC series of the 1980s, King's Royal and Strike It Rich, before going into Inspector Wexford.
(6) The play, about a pill-popping matriarch and her rackety family, will be adapted for the screen by Tracy Letts, who won a Pulitzer prize for the work.
(7) They named her after the Hebrew matriarch whose pleas for a child were eventually answered.
(8) Because of the large number of young men who had either been killed in the Civil War, left the region seeking a new beginning in the West, or moved to more prosperous metropolitan centers on the East coast, rural life in 19th century New England was primarily matriarchal or female-centered.
(9) Guided by Freud's dialectic thinking and his discussion of the phenomena of patriarchy and matriarchy, one is led to contemplate the totemism of a matriarchally oriented boy.
(10) The death and burial of a southern matriarch, Addie Bundren, is told from some 15 viewpoints, including that of the dying woman herself.
(11) "So many rappers aren't talking about what's going on in the music industry and how many people are gay," says DJ and scene matriarch Venus X.
(12) A wolf called No9 had the first litter of eight pups and was known as the “matriarch of Yellowstone”.
(13) "He saw Forrest as the matriarch and the patriarch of the family, in the wake of their parents' deaths.
(14) Mother: Andrée, fearsome matriarch Education: a mediocre student, has an MA in private law and degree in business law.
(15) All the other women in my family are magnificent matriarchs with beautiful, well-organised homes, while the role I've played until now has been peripatetic and undomesticated.
(16) Scott said zookeepers had been keeping a close eye on the female elephants since the death earlier this month of the zoo's matriarch elephant, Connie.
(17) Analysis of mitochondrial (mt) DNA restriction sites shows that Kemp's ridley is distinct from the olive ridley in matriarchal phylogeny, and that the two are sister taxa with respect to other marine turtles.
(18) Matriarch, I note, has now become almost a term of abuse when used about Angela Merkel.
(19) But even as the leader attempted not to sound like the matriarch in charge of the family till, there is no denying that that is exactly what she is.
(20) Winner: 2012's reimagining of the matriarch as handy recap tool.