(a.) Of or pertaining to the Samoan Islands (formerly called Navigators' Islands) in the South Pacific Ocean, or their inhabitants.
(n.) An inhabitant of the Samoan Islands.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Samoan men showed an increase in the frequency of obesity with increasing modernity of residence or occupation.
(2) They ended up exceeding that margin comfortably, surging to a 14-0 lead inside the first 19 minutes and then withstanding the inevitable Samoan fightback, with the Wigan wing Pat Richards kicking four penalties to punish their growing indiscipline.
(3) The largest number were in Samoans (61%) although the infection was present in some other Pacific Islanders.
(4) The presence of the rare Lewis phenotype Le(a+b+) is reported in various Polynesian groups, including Maoris, Samoans, Cook Islanders, Nuieans and Tokelau Islanders.
(5) The Samoan children appear larger than their European counterparts in early infancy, although this difference is lost by nine months of age.
(6) Ninety-three percent of Polynesians exhibited this 9-bp deletion, including 100% of Samoans, Maoris, and Niueans.
(7) The data from the first 3 years of the Samoan pilot filariasis control programme were reanalysed using incidence instead of prevalence statistics.
(8) Although cases may have been missed, it seems likely that incidence rates among Samoans are substantially lower than those recorded in Polynesian populations elsewhere.
(9) The frequencies of genes in these various systems suggest that Samoans fall partly into an island Melanesian-Micronesian pattern, and partly are unique.
(10) Variation in physical activity due to residence and occupation in Western Samoan men is related to lipoprotein cholesterol levels, but not to total cholesterol levels, and some effects may be secondary to differences in body composition.
(11) A single-dose of diethylcarbamazine citrate (DEC, 6 mg per kg body weight) was administered in three mass treatment campaigns to > 80% of the estimated total Samoan population (160,000) in 1982, 1983, and 1986.
(12) In 1975, 461 American Samoan men responded to the CMI.
(13) Rarely does an entire nation get behind something as wholeheartedly as the Samoans did.
(14) If his forthcoming album, Doris, is anything like last year's Chum , on which he stitched together observations about his absent father and his time at a Samoan reform school, even the staunchest Odd Future critics will have to put down their copy of Illmatic and pay attention.
(15) As an element of verbalized group sentiment, it is a positive assertion of Samoan values, astatement of social solidarity.
(16) The prevalence of malabsorption varied with location: for Samoans it ranged from 41% to 60% in Western Samoa and 0% to 35% in New Zealand; white children had rates of 27% in the Cook Islands and 5% in New Zealand.
(17) On digestion with Bgl II the third alpha-globin gene was found in an additional 3.7 kb fragment in all seven Samoans with triplicated alpha-globin loci, while digestion with Bam HI produced an abnormal elongated 18.2 kb fragment carrying alpha-globin genes in addition to the normal 14.5 kb fragment.
(18) Results of the lifestyle characteristic comparisons show that the villagers have greater life satisfaction, emotional stability, agreement with Samoan customs, and familial responsibility (P less than 0.05).
(19) The higher norepinephrine excretion rate in the more modernized Samoan groups may be related to differences in relative work load associated with changes in body weight, work capacity, and work patterns which accompany modernization.
(20) The purpose of this study was to examine whether the relationships between the rates of urinary catecholamine excretion and blood pressure were similar in more traditionally living and more acculturated Western Samoan men.