(n.) The murder of a mother by her son or daughter.
(n.) One who murders one's own mother.
Example Sentences:
(1) The matricidal group differed from the control group in the way they viewed the difference between mother and father on various scales, like over-involved, tolerant, affectionate and performance-orientated.
(2) In the days before the murder he sought out information about the Ku Klux Klan, the Waffen SS, Israel, serial killers and matricide.
(3) Thirteen out of sixteen cases described their mothers as quite domineering and demanding but the EMBU inventory revealed that the Matricidal group differed from the Control group in how tolerant they saw their parents.
(4) It is suggested that these features are of greater significance in matricide than the specific form of psychiatric disorder.
(5) The matricidal groups' mothers were found to be more over-involved, tolerant, affectionate, and fathers more abusive.
(6) The authors studied 15 men who committed matricide.
(7) Compared with filicides, matricides were significantly older, were single, and more often suffered from mental illness and substance abuse.
(8) Seventeen female parricides (14 matricides, 3 patricides) were identified: in a remand prison (11), a Special Hospital (5), and a Regional Secure Unit (1).
(9) Abdulrahman said he thought he had heard of an Isis fighter who had killed his father, but this was the first matricide he was aware of.
(10) Regardless of psychiatric diagnosis, matricides were mostly single, socially isolated women in mid-life, living alone with a domineering mother in a mutually dependent but hostile relationship.
(11) Similar characteristics are found in male matricides, who are predominantly schizophrenic.
(12) The authors studied sixteen men who committed matricide.
(13) The authors conclude that the matricidal impulse evolves through successive stages of psychological development; therefore, the motives for matricide are varied and correlate with the level of psychological development or regression.
(14) During one year's stay in the child psychiatric department after the homicide the boy was psychotic, probably suffering from a schizophrenic disorder which is presumed to have developed in the years preceding the matricide.
(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.
Mother
Definition:
(n.) A female parent; especially, one of the human race; a woman who has borne a child.
(n.) That which has produced or nurtured anything; source of birth or origin; generatrix.
(n.) An old woman or matron.
(n.) The female superior or head of a religious house, as an abbess, etc.
(n.) Hysterical passion; hysteria.
(a.) Received by birth or from ancestors; native, natural; as, mother language; also acting the part, or having the place of a mother; producing others; originating.
(v. t.) To adopt as a son or daughter; to perform the duties of a mother to.
(n.) A film or membrane which is developed on the surface of fermented alcoholic liquids, such as vinegar, wine, etc., and acts as a means of conveying the oxygen of the air to the alcohol and other combustible principles of the liquid, thus leading to their oxidation.
(v. i.) To become like, or full of, mother, or thick matter, as vinegar.
Example Sentences:
(1) Children of smoking mothers had an 18.0 per cent cumulative incidence of post-infancy wheezing through 10 years of age, compared with 16.2 per cent among children of nonsmoking mothers (risk ratio 1.11, 95% CI: 1.02, 1.21).
(2) The mothers of these babies do not show any evidence of alpha-thalassaemia.
(3) In addition, congenital anemias such as sickle cell disease can impact on the health of the mother and fetus.
(4) Previous studies have not always controlled for socioeconomic status (SES) of mothers or other potential confounders such as gestational age or birthweight of infants.
(5) Perelman is currently unemployed and lives a frugal life with his mother in St Petersburg.
(6) There is precedent in Islamic law for saving the life of the mother where there is a clear choice of allowing either the fetus or the mother to survive.
(7) A 45-year-old mother of four, named as Hediye Sen, was killed during clashes in Cizre, while a 70-year-old died of a heart attack during fighting in Silopi, according to hospital sources.
(8) Titre in newborn was as a rule lower than the corresponding titre of mother.
(9) The aim of this study was to plot the course of the transcutaneously measured PCO2 (tcPCO2) in the fetus during oxygenation of the mother.
(10) Mother and Sister take over with more nuanced emotional literacy.
(11) The presence of BLG in human milk is a common finding in both atopic and non-atopic mothers.
(12) A considerably greater increase in the peak plasma OT concentration resulted when hungry foster litters of 6 pups were suckled after the mothers' own 6 pups had been suckled.
(13) He stressed the importance of the motivation to the mother for breast feeding and the independence between levels of instruction and frequency of breast feeding.
(14) There are no published reports of its detection in neonates born to affected mothers.
(15) The mother in Arthur Ransome's children's classic, Swallows and Amazons, is something of a cipher, but her inability to make basic decisions does mean she receives one of the finest telegrams in all literature.
(16) Both mothers had been sniffing regularly throughout their pregnancies.
(17) 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.
(18) The mothers of 87 male and female adolescents accepted at a counseling agency described their offspring by completing the Institute of Juvenile Research Behavior Checklist.
(19) No woman is at greater risk for ovarian carcinoma than one who is a member of a hereditary ovarian carcinoma syndrome kindred and whose mother, sister, or daughter has been affected with this disease and with an integrally related hereditary syndrome cancer.
(20) This hormone alone or together with hPL could therefore take over the role of the lacking pituitary GH in the mother during the last half of pregnancy.