(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.
Procreation
Definition:
(n.) The act of begetting; generation and production of young.
Example Sentences:
(1) The relation between genetic counseling and the procreation sphere among the studied families is presented.
(2) Four children have sickle-cell anaemia, two sickle-cell haemoglobin C disease, one has sickle-cell thalassaemia, and one is asymptomatic haemoglobin C thalassaemia.It is emphasized that the contribution that adult sickle-cell disease patients make, through procreation, to the persistence of the S gene may be greater than is normally supposed, and that this contribution may soon outstrip that made by balanced polymorphism through falciparum malaria.
(3) (Like humans, they have sex for pleasure as well as for procreation.)
(4) The traditional philosophy that all sexual intercourse should serve potential procreation is fading.
(5) Separation themes, however, were more frequent during the CR than the EN period, suggesting that concerns over separation from siblings reflect a developmental process which might be related to bonding with the family of procreation.
(6) In a retrospective study, we analysed nine hundred and twenty-two pregnancies obtained using medically assisted procreation between May 1982 and May 1990.
(7) Faced with a rapidly ageing society, skyrocketing housing prices, low birth rates and a population that works the longest hours in the world, this country of 5.3 million people has made various attempts over the years to encourage its citizens to marry and procreate, from government-funded speed-dating schemes to educational flyers on how to flirt.
(8) "Marriage is the only union enabling procreation," Croatian cardinal Josip Bozanic said in his message to followers.
(9) But only half of the women do not keep this special method of procreation secret.
(10) The right time for medically assisted procreation is obvious in patients with tubal obstruction but in the others it varies according to age, duration of infertility and previous treatments.
(11) Also, because the dosage required is comparatively low, patients over procreative age could be included in the program of treatment with immunosuppressants.
(12) The position is mainly based on the importance of procreation for individuals.
(13) After stating that abortion is not to be considered a contraceptive method, and that, on the other hand, responsible procreation is to be encouraged, and information and services of contraception obtained in maternal-infant health centers, the law states the modalities for voluntary interruption of pregnancy.
(14) The contractual view of procreative freedom perpetuates and assumes a traditional patriarchal family model.
(15) The law would not give automatic joint parenting rights to gay couples who had a child together, nor would it allow medically assisted procreation or IVF.
(16) Evaluation of the boys included testicular biopsy, semen analyses and the ability to procreate.
(17) A number of psychological determinants are important for the possibility of genetic investigations in the affected families, and the decision about procreation may be influenced by a number of determinants other than the result of genetic counsel.
(18) Then she cites--and briefly comments upon--some court cases brought by parents of genetically defective children against their physicians for allegedly failing to predict or to diagnose genetic defects in those children in time for the parents to exercise any procreative options such as sterilization, contraception, or abortion.
(19) Whereas the prophylaxis has been a centralized social-hygienic request, the eugenics has been orientated on the transfer of the principle of selection and the regulations of the human procreation.
(20) On the basis of 300 andrological expertises made over the last 40 years to answer the question as to procreative capacity and other andrological problems, a position is taken up towards the expertise in general and to a number of characteristic data.