(n.sing. & pl.) That which is produced; a child or children; a descendant or descendants, however remote from the stock.
(n.sing. & pl.) The act of production; generation.
(n.sing. & pl.) Origin; lineage; family.
Example Sentences:
(1) No reversions to wild-type levels were observed in 555 heterozygous offspring of crosses between homozygous Campines and normals.
(2) In neither case has a significant elevation in inherited genetic effects or cancer been detected in the offspring of exposed individuals.
(3) For that reason we determine basal serum pepsinogen I (PG I) levels in 25 ulcerous patients and 75% of their offspring and to a control group matched by age and sex.
(4) The analgesic activity of morphine was assessed by the hot-plate technique in the offspring of female CFE rats that had received morphine twice daily on days 5 to 12 of pregnancy.
(5) 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.
(6) Neither light nor electron microscopy revealed significant morphologic alterations in the cochlear elements of the exposed offspring.
(7) 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.
(8) The data of first 1000 first-born, non-malformed, mature (greater than or equal to 2500 g) offspring of participants in the Hungarian "Optimal" Family Planning Programme were evaluated.
(9) Subcutaneous polymorphic sarcomas were induced in 8 out 27 offspring of syrian golden Hamsters after treatment of pregnant mother animals at day 15 of gestation with Adenovirus 12.
(10) Here we show that the subsequent survival and reproductive success of subordinate female red deer is depressed more by rearing sons than by rearing daughters, whereas the subsequent fitness of dominant females is unaffected by the sex of their present offspring.
(11) The residual values were positively correlated in parent-offspring pairs and among sibs, both those presumed to be living together and those presumed to be living apart.
(12) The five offspring are ancestors of all known carriers.
(13) We have studied the effect of ampicillin and cloxacillin treatment of mice in the final week of pregnancy on the development of the lymphatic system of their offsprings.
(14) It was caused at the frequency close to 100% in dysgenic offsprings reared above 25 degrees C, of which gonads were morphologically clearly different from those of usual GD sterility, whereas there was no indication of GD-3 sterility at temperatures below 24 degrees C. Temperature sensitive period of GD-3 sterility was estimated to the prepupal stage by shift-down experiment.
(15) The effects of repeated N2O exposures were investigated for offspring of mice exposed to air or N2O (5%, 15%, or 35%) for 4 hours per day on days 6 through 15 of pregnancy.
(16) Whether normal individuals with such a duplication carry increased risk of having offspring with an obesity syndrome is yet to be determined.
(17) Offspring of marmosets reached adult values of 14CO2 exhalation at 8 days postnatally when using [14CO2]-methacetin as substrate and at 30 days postnatally using [14C2H5]-phenacetin in the breath test.
(18) The sample consisted of 102 Japanese families, each including both parents and one of their offspring, and on average all subjects had relatively well-aligned permanent dentitions.
(19) At Day 56, serum IgM concentrations were significantly lower in the low zinc offspring.
(20) Such conditions may influence the personality of offspring of deaf-mute people.
Prepotency
Definition:
(n.) The quality or condition of being prepotent; predominance.
(n.) The capacity, on the part of one of the parents, as compared with the other, to transmit more than his or her own share of characteristics to their offspring.
Example Sentences:
(1) Distal stimuli emanating from the female or pups induce proximity by provoking orientation, attention and arousal; the meaning of these stimuli is largely learned by conditioned associations during the initial executions of the behavior, although odors may have a prepotent influence for some individuals.
(2) Certain extraterritorial cues constituting an agoraphobic cluster seem to be prepotent and prepared triggers or modifiers of fear during stress.
(3) Lung reflexes in the fibrotic rabbits were more profoundly changed than eupneic breathing in a way that could be interpreted as slowly adapting receptor activity, which was increased, being overpowered by a prepotent input from pulmonary rapidly adapting receptors.
(4) It is suggested that the hippocampus may act to suppress any ongoing dominant or prepotent response, whether the response involves movement or cessation of movement.
(5) A model of antonym learning is proposed that assigns a prepotent role to the second-to-emerge term in a contrastive pair.
(6) These probably include ascending dopaminergic and cholinergic systems which are relatively thirst specific, and a nonspecific, cholinergic component of the reticular activating system which triggers the animal to execute a prepotent response which is specific to a given animal with a given history of stimulation under particular enviromental constraints.
(7) The prepotency of a maternal regulator has also been demonstrated in humans.
(8) This study also demonstrated an extensive network of NPY fibers in various areas of the forebrain such as the prepotic area, the hypothalamus and the paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus.
(9) It is considered that the right hemisphere is prepotent for dealing with simple perceptual stimuli even when there is no spatial component for the task.
(10) Unimpaired taste aversion is found, arguing against a deficit in the ability to inhibit a prepotent response.
(11) These data, together with previous observations, suggest that there exists a correlation between equipotential effects of D- and L-amphetamine and DA electrode placements on the one hand, and prepotent effects of D-amphetamine and NA electrode placements on the other.
(12) Appetitive drug actions increase the likelihood of the pursuit of appetitive stimuli, and additional drug constitutes a prepotent candidate from among the available appetitive stimuli.
(13) The learning of stimulus bound drinking is proposed to have its neural locus within the system which mediates the prepotent response, rather than in a thirst system or general activation system.
(14) The combined results suggest that perinatal gonadal androgen exposure effects on social play are prepotent and contribute essentially to sex differences in the initiation of social play behavior.
(15) Electrical stimulation of the lateral hypothalamus in 2 species of hibernator, dormice (Glis glis) and ground squirrels (Spermophilus lateralis), suggests that induced behaviors may reflect activation of specific neural systems, rather than merely activation of a single central mechanism interacting with internal and external cues and past experience (prepotency hypothesis).
(16) Just as in animals, it seems likely that the inability to hyperventilate permitted the primary cardiac reflex to occur rather than the usual response of tachycardia to chemoreceptor stimulation which is prepotent with spontaneous ventilation.
(17) We suggest that the fragile X patients may be more susceptible to mutagens and carcinogens and, therefore, more prepotent to neoplastic induction.
(18) Since speech exerts a prepotent attraction on the attention of normally developing infants, hence facilitating social engagement, we designed a technique to examine whether this inborn reaction could be at fault in young autistic children.
(19) These results were interpreted as indicating that the diffuse pain system was prepotent in influencing behavior when both the discrete and diffuse pain systems were activated simultaneously.
(20) Patterns with more elements, angles, and information as well as patterns with larger elements received longer fixation at all ages, but initially prepotent size preferences decreased with age while number preferences became stronger.