(n.) The relation of a father to his child; fathership; fatherhood; family headship; as, the divine paternity.
(n.) Derivation or descent from a father; male parentage; as, the paternity of a child.
(n.) Origin; authorship.
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.
Patrimony
Definition:
(n.) A right or estate inherited from one's father; or, in a larger sense, from any ancestor.
(n.) Formerly, a church estate or endowment.
Example Sentences:
(1) The morphological platelet transformations corresponding to functional attitudes, need of energetic pattern given by the content, in platelets, of enzymatic patrimony.
(2) Such process of "archaeology" seems to be the only suitable to supply us the cipher-key of the ambiguous, shifty character of oxygen, and entrust us with a cultural patrimony being unique as it is spendable in an immediate clinical future.
(3) Pixadores have also tarnished sites that are part of the city’s historic patrimony, including the Ramos de Azevedo fountain in downtown São Paulo.
(4) The foods that constituted the core of the diet of the Americas before 1492--from maize to potatoes, beans to tomatoes, to numerous other fruits and vegetables--became the true patrimony that the inhabitants of the New World bequeathed to humanity.
(5) The struggle reflects a tension over the legitimacy of what Nepalis call 'source force', defined here as the use of patrimonialism within a bureaucratic structure.
(6) Their relation is, therefore, matrimonial and not patrimonial.
(7) The indications found in the examination lead to the conclusion that those who are predisposed to a certain type of delinquency, greater or lesser, (for example, towards crimes against the patrimony, especially if recidivous) continued to commit crimes at the same rhythm, or even in some cases at a greater rhythm, while those who may have fallen only rarely into crime (particularly women) tended to relapse less into crime.
(8) But they expressed surprise that the Holy See’s regulators had not yet made full inspections of either the Vatican ‘bank’ or the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See (APSA), the department that manages the papacy’s assets.
(9) What occurs if some languages are known since very early childhood, and belong to a pre-symbolic structural patrimony closely bound to bodily sensations and concrete experiences?
(10) By the time the Mail, Telegraph and the rest go to town with mendacious scare stories, every ordinary homeowner will imagine any new wealth tax will steal away their children's patrimony.
(11) It is pointed out the value of the antibodies patrimony in existence in healthy persons, in order to prevent the diseases caused by virus and Mycoplasma pneumoniae.
(12) The Turkish legal team may argue that because the Convention is a living instrument, it should be interpreted in light of current international law including the UNESCO heritage conventions and other Governmental statements about not depriving countries of their cultural patrimony.
(13) "I've sought to take music, which is usually a luxury item, and turn it into cultural patrimony accessible to all".
(14) He had already been suspended from his job as an accountant in the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See (Apsa) and, after his arrest, his IOR accounts were ordered to be frozen by the Vatican's promoter of justice .
(15) The subsequent information campaign attempted to adapt its message to each category identified, taking into consideration economic and psychosocial factors, the attachment of the population to its culinary patrimony, and the pejorative vision of dietetics perceived by part of the population.
(16) And if this is at the expense of the patrimony or easy goodwill of others, then so be it.
(17) The new museum is a fusion of this one and patrimony of the School of Medicine and the ancient San Vicente Hospital.
(18) Mennini heads a special unit inside the Vatican called the extraordinary division of APSA – Amministrazione del Patrimonio della Sede Apostolica – which handles the so-called "patrimony of the Holy See".
(19) These organisations would rather spend money with less old-style patrimony and more savvy in the vagaries of modern markets.
(20) The compensation awarded to the victim will consist of an overvalued extra-patrimonial damage which will eventually be able to balance a low physiological deficit price.