(a.) Of or pertaining to a father; fatherly; showing the disposition of a father; guiding or instructing as a father; as, paternal care.
(a.) Received or derived from a father; hereditary; as, a paternal estate.
Example Sentences:
(1) Here we report that sperm from psr males fertilizes eggs, but that the paternal chromosomes are subsequently condensed into a chromatin mass before the first mitotic division of the egg and do not participate in further divisions.
(2) No evidence was found of reactivation of the inactive (paternal) allele or inactivation of both maternal and paternal alleles.
(3) This showed that maternal (but not paternal) smoking was associated with significant increase in rates of lower respiratory infection and lower respiratory symptoms during the child's first 2 years.
(4) Mta is determined by a maternally transmitted, extrachromosomal genetic element, so backcross mice reject skin from their inbred, homozygous paternal strain.
(5) These patients have two maternal copies and no paternal copy of 15q11q13 (maternal uniparental disomy) instead of one copy from each parent.
(6) The statistical association between Down syndrome incidence and maternal age, paternal age and birth order has been studied in a sample of over 4000 cases.
(7) Least squares means were compared for differences in growth and carcass traits between pigs that inherited alternative paternal marker alleles.
(8) The purpose of this investigation was to calculate the paternity probabilities for a sample of legitimate families with a true father compared with those obtained in some cases of non-excluded men chosen randomly from the population as the accused fathers for the same mother-child pairs.
(9) The possible dose-response relationship between paternal smoking and birth defects was assessed in 3 groups: 1-9, 10- 19, and 20 or more cigarettes per day.
(10) If in cases of discussed paternity in the child ahp was revealed and the Hp constellation of the mother: putative father was: Hp 1--1 X 1--1 or 2--2 X 2--2--provided that the paternity with the testing of other blood-group systems could not be excluded--it's necessary to try to identify the true Hp type of the child--since it might give the possibility for exclusion of paternity.
(11) Raised odds ratios were found for paternal exposure during gestation, but no independent postnatal effect was evident.
(12) The occupation of the mother was not associated with delivery of a small-for-gestational-age infant, in contrast to paternal employment in the art (OR = 2.6, 95% Cl 1.2-5.6) and textile industries (OR = 2.5, 95% Cl 1.3-4.7).
(13) Three related new cases with almost complete trisomy 11p due to paternal balanced translocation 46, XY, t(7; 11) (q36.1; p11.1) are reported.
(14) Of all 17 factors considered, primigravidae showed unadjusted significant associations between preterm delivery and marital status, region of mother's residence, maternal occupation, maternal education and paternal education level.
(15) CP proband frequencies of .004 for maternal half sibs and .009 for the paternal counterparts were also found.
(16) Thus, there is no evidence that the paternal RB1 allele is preferentially retained in retinoblastoma, as has been suggested to be the case in osteosarcoma.
(17) It should be noted that the last government introduced an entitlement for up to six months paternity leave in 2010, claiming the mother's statutory maternity pay entitlement in her place if she returns to work.
(18) HpaII and HhaI methylation sensitive restriction sites within the bacterial LacZ reporter gene are completely methylated when activity of the maternally inherited transgene is detected in the fetal liver, and not methylated when the paternally inherited transgene is silent.
(19) The frequency of paternal visits was high-lighted as a variable useful in predicting high-risk parenting.
(20) Low birth weight, short gestation pregnancies, and paternal family history of the disease were significant features.
Sororal
Definition:
(a.) Relating to a sister; sisterly.
Example Sentences:
(1) Glee and American Horror Story impresario Ryan Murphy returns with this camptastic take on the slasher genre where a sorority house is besieged by a killer.
(2) We believe correction of alcohol abuse and addiction by college students must focus, at least in part, on social organizations, especially fraternities and sororities.
(3) Racism at Harvard: months after protests began, students demand concrete change Read more “Although the fraternities, sororities and final [single-sex] clubs are not formally recognized by the college,” Faust wrote in an open letter to dean Rakesh Khurana , “they play an unmistakable and growing role in student life, in many cases enacting forms of privilege and exclusion at odds with our deepest values.
(4) Violet is the wonky queen bee of the sorority girls.
(5) Photograph: Supplied Issues with sororities and private clubs aside, it’s not completely the school’s fault that after sorority sisters accidentally kill one of their members, another sister’s boyfriend ends up killing the guilty parties.
(6) We believe efforts to correct alcohol abuse and addiction by college students must focus, at least in part, on social organizations, especially fraternities and sororities.
(7) In the National Union of Journalists or Women in Journalism , I feel a distinct lack of fraternity or sorority with many plying their trade on the other side.
(8) "Everyone in my sorority knows the answer to this one.
(9) Legality, sorority, equality The Arab spring was not about gender equality.
(10) But, just like a sorority house plagued by a serial killer, beware all those who stick around too long.
(11) The university estimates that about 30% of undergraduates belong to one of the six all-male final clubs, five all-female final clubs and nine fraternities and sororities or other single-sex organizations.
(12) Alarmed by the angry, persistent pounding on the sorority’s front door, no one opened it.
(13) After killing the three men, police said, Rodgers drove to the Alpha Phi sorority house.
(14) The first study is of a sample of 132 women who were sorority members or roommates of sorority members living on the campus of a large coeducational state university.
(15) Intent to join a fraternity or sorority (the Greek system) was associated with frequent drinking, binging, and high-risk CAGE and PBDS scores.
(16) Frequent heavy drinkers, cocaine users, and students with psychosocial problems appeared disproportionately among students planning to join fraternities and sororities.
(17) The sorority runs afoul of new dean of students Cathy Munsch (Jamie Lee Curtis, getting back to her horror roots) who forces Kappa to accept any pledges who apply or else they will lose their charter.
(18) The order came down as more than 10,000 young people began converging on Washington – campus activists, union organisers, and even members of college sororities – to lobby members of Congress to reduce America's reliance on coal.
(19) Seven hundred sixteen female UCLA students--drawn from Primary Care Clinic, Women's Health Clinic, sorority, athletic team, dance major, and undergraduate psychology class populations--completed questionnaires regarding eating disorders symptoms and attitudes compatible with the diagnostic criteria published by the American Psychiatric Association in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, (3rd ed., DSM-III), the Eating Disorders Inventory, and related information.
(20) One of these pledges is Grace (Skyler Samuels), who is rushing the sorority because her dead mother was in it and she wants to feel closer to her.