(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.
Son
Definition:
(n.) A male child; the male issue, or offspring, of a parent, father or mother.
(n.) A male descendant, however distant; hence, in the plural, descendants in general.
(n.) Any young male person spoken of as a child; an adopted male child; a pupil, ward, or any other male dependent.
(n.) A native or inhabitant of some specified place; as, sons of Albion; sons of New England.
(n.) The produce of anything.
(n.) Jesus Christ, the Savior; -- called the Son of God, and the Son of man.
Example Sentences:
(1) His son, Karim Makarius, opened the gallery to display some of the legacy bequeathed to him by his father in 2009, as well as the work of other Argentine photographers and artists – currently images by contemporary photographer Facundo de Zuviria are also on show.
(2) At the time, with a regular supply of British immigrants arriving in large numbers in Australia, Biggs was able to blend in well as "Terry Cook", a carpenter, so well in fact that his wife, Charmian, was able to join him with his three sons.
(3) It comes in defiant journalism, like the story televised last week of a gardener in Aleppo who was killed by bombs while tending his roses and his son, who helped him, orphaned.
(4) Examination of the SON in such animals revealed that the oxytocinergic system is already modified by day 12 of dioestrus; during suckling-induced lactation, the anatomical changes are identical to those seen during a normal post-partum lactation.
(5) The only way we can change it, is if we get people to look in and understand what is happening.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Dean, Clare and their baby son.
(6) Some 10 years after arriving in Sheffield with her husband and three-year-old son, Bazzie is a success story.
(7) "I hope that he has the sleepless nights I have had for the past five weeks because my son sustained horrific injuries."
(8) He's called out for his lack of imagination in a stinging review by a leading food critic (Oliver Platt) and - after being introduced to Twitter by his tech-savvy son (Emjay Anthony) - accidentally starts a flame war that will lead to him losing his job.
(9) Scott was born in North Shields, Tyne and Wear, the youngest of the three sons of Colonel Francis Percy Scott, who served in the Royal Engineers, and his wife, Elizabeth.
(10) Simon Cross, 46, his partner Lizzy Gilliland, 42, and their son Gabriel, two, from Nottingham, expressed the views of many attending.
(11) The education secretary's wife, Sarah Vine, a columnist, said her son William, nine, and daughter Beatrice, 11, now realise how much their father is hated for his position in government because other children tell them in the playground.
(12) The personal experience of our son's prolonged hospitalization due to osteomyelitis (23 days) was detailed by an ongoing diary.
(13) For Bush Sr, the dilemma is all the more agonising as some of the White House advisers he now criticises are former employees he bequeathed to his son.
(14) 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.
(15) My son was born healthy, strong and very handsome, in spite of his dangerous start.
(16) That was long after the demolition of nearby Hyde Abbey, where he was originally buried with his son and other members of his family more than 1,000 years ago.
(17) Both Murdoch and his son James were called to testify before parliament.
(18) "I am in a bad situation, psychologically so bad and confused," one father said, surrounded by his three other young sons.
(19) It wasn't the best marriage – Jackie left me in 1962 when my first son, Paul, was 18 months old.
(20) She kept it up for three years, until her son's letters finally persuaded her to cut down to one day a week.