(n.) One who begets, or brings forth, offspring; a father or a mother.
(n.) That which produces; cause; source; author; begetter; as, idleness is the parent of vice.
Example Sentences:
(1) Parents of subjects at the experimental school were visited at home by a community health worker who provided individualized information on dental services and preventive strategies.
(2) Although Jeggo's Chinese hamster ovary cells were more responsive to mAMSA, novo still abrogated mAMSA toxicity in the mutant cells as well as in the parental Chinese hamster ovary cells 2,4-Dinitrophenol acted similarly to novo with respect to mAMSA killing, but neither compound reduced the ATP content of V79 cells.
(3) Our parents had no religious beliefs and there will be no funeral."
(4) Loratadine has one main metabolite, descarbethoxyloratadine, which is four times more active than the parent drug.
(5) The antiproliferative activity of IFN was studied using the parental L cell line, a tk- derivative, and a tk- (tk+) subline into which the tk gene of herpes simplex virus was introduced.
(6) The remainder of the radioactivity appeared chromatographically just prior to the bisantrene peak, indicating that compounds more polar than the parent were present as transformation products.
(7) 4) Parents imagined that fruit drinks, carbonated beverages and beverages with lactic acid promoted tooth decay.
(8) Parents believed they should try to normalize their child's experiences, that interactions with health care professionals required negotiation and assertiveness, and that they needed some support person(s) outside of the family.
(9) Then, the informed permission of parents should be obtained.
(10) Some parents are blessed with a soul that lights up every time their little precious brings them a carefully crafted portrait or home-made greetings card.
(11) Swedes tend to see generous shared parental leave as good for the economy, since it prevents the nation's investment in women's education and expertise from going to waste.
(12) It said 70 of the killed militants were from Isis, while the other 50 it described as being aligned with the Nusra Front, the parent organisation of the Khorasan cell and al-Qaida’s preferred affiliate in Syria.
(13) F pili could be seen on cells of the latter strain but not on those of the parental strain or the strain bearing pColVF54 luminal diameter r. Pili other than F pili were not seen on cells of the strains bearing pF54 in either form.
(14) There is a gradual loosening of the adolescent's emotional dependence on her parents and a transfer of dependency ties to peers.
(15) Pharmacokinetics of the parent drug followed a two-compartment model.
(16) At the weekend the couple’s daughter, Holly Graham, 29, expressed frustration at the lack of information coming from the Foreign Office and the tour operator that her parents travelled with.
(17) Bile flow was stimulated significantly by VPA and MCCA, but not by CCA; changes in bile flow correlated with the biliary excretion rate of base-labile conjugates rather than with excretion of the parent compounds themselves.
(18) In both cases a small marker chromosome was observed which proved de novo in origin, since parental chromosomes were normal.
(19) It is suggested that children may learn enough to satisfy their parents' expectations by this age or grade.
(20) The majority of the recombinants had received all the other gene segments from the sensitive parent strain.
Parentage
Definition:
(n.) Descent from parents or ancestors; parents or ancestors considered with respect to their rank or character; extraction; birth; as, a man of noble parentage.
Example Sentences:
(1) The concordance for this disease in these two patients of nonconsanguineous parentage with no family history of the disorder suggests the possibility of sublethal intrauterine injury to anterior horn cells.
(2) The spectra show no obvious parentage in the known c.d.
(3) Fossil eggs attributable to dinosaur (probably prosauropod) parentage that have been recovered from the early Jurassic Elliot Formation sediments at the Rooidraai locality possess shells that are similar to those of birds and crocodilians, and distinctly unlike those of chelonians and gekkonids.
(4) His father is 6ft 2in - I'd check the milkman" - appraising Gary Neville's parentage in 1996.
(5) The authors compared female adoptees of antisocial parentage with male and female controls, male adoptees of antisocial parentage, and male and female adoptees whose biological parents had other psychiatric conditions.
(6) She insisted that the race of the two parties – Martin was black, Zimmerman of mixed white-Hispanic parentage – never came up in the jury room.
(7) The presence of three pregnant Shetland mares in the same pasture, however, raised some questions about parentage, even though all three mares apparently gave birth to single foals within 6 weeks after the birth of the propositus.
(8) Will it have anything as loopy as the Mos Eisley cantina, or as horrifying as the revelation of Luke’s parentage?
(9) The high prevalence of otitis media in children of mixed parentage and in one particular family of European ancestry suggests the presence of intrinsic or pronicity factors that are seemingly transmissible.
(10) Much of the hope around breathing new life into the movement has rested on the relatively youthful shoulders of figures such as Rubio, whose Cuban parentage is seen as allowing the party to move away from its image as dominated by old, white men.
(11) Furthermore, the cogency of exclusion of parentage, the average power of exclusion and the probability of parentage is calculated using published mutation rates and gene frequencies of the four probes.
(12) In conclusion, use of the four gene probes has both theoretically and practically turned out to be a powerful method for parentage testing.
(13) The discrimination probability of AHSG is 0.5704 and the exclusion probability of parentage 0.1669.
(14) The two groups identified in Puerto Rico were: Puerto Rican islanders (adolescents who had never lived outside of Puerto Rico) and Puerto Rican immigrants (New York City-born youngsters of Puerto Rican parentage whose families had returned to live on the island).
(15) The validity of the Pi polymorphism for population genetics, linkage analysis and parentage testing is discussed.
(16) But why should a university look at anyone's parentage to decide whether to admit them or not?
(17) Intracranial haemorrhage is usually a very rare occurrence in the fetus before the onset of labour but we have identified major, mostly subdural, prenatal intracranial haemorrhages in 47 infants of immigrant Pacific Islander parentage.
(18) The basic parametres of the population structures, such as parentage and consanguinity, which is what physical anthropologists have been researching in recent years in Spain, form an important data base which must be integrated into future Genetic Epidemiology studies; these studies will result in its natural progression.
(19) Teenagers of mixed black and white parentage face peculiar difficulties in the developmental tasks of adolescence.
(20) From biostatistical evaluation of 21 genetic markers, including HLA phenotypes, a high value of probability for paternity, maternity and parentage was found between the child, the child's mother, the accused man and his mother.