(a.) Born after the death of the father, or taken from the dead body of the mother; as, a posthumous son or daughter.
(a.) Published after the death of the author; as, posthumous works; a posthumous edition.
(a.) Being or continuing after one's death; as, a posthumous reputation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Later this month sees the release in the US of Star Trek Beyond – Yelchin’s most high-profile movie to be released posthumously.
(2) In B neurons posthumous depolarization follows orthodromic responses, and a late posthumous depolarization can be seen in B and C neurons following either ortho- or antidromic stimulation.
(3) Last week’s International Women’s Day offered a fresh variation on that enjoyable, if futile, new pastime – posthumous EU partisanship.
(4) Posthumously, his worst fears came true – as evidenced by additional tweeted tributes from such notables as Stephen Fry , Gary Lineker , Simon Pegg , and Arlene Phillips , who had lately seen him "walking around Belsize Park".
(5) The memorial service honored those first responders and two civilians who tried to fight the fire and were posthumously named volunteer first responders.
(6) Magnitsky was spared a posthumous jail sentence after a Moscow judge acknowledged that he was already dead.
(7) Other important Stevenson titles: Treasure Island (1883); The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886); A Child's Garden of Verses (1886); The Weir of Hermiston (1896, posthumous).
(8) The former Belfast IRA commander Brendan Hughes posthumously claimed in taped testimony, for the US university Boston College, that Gerry Adams gave the order for the widow to be shot dead but buried clandestinely in order to avoid any negative publicity for the republican movement.
(9) But like his contemporaries Notorious BIG and Tupac, Dilla's posthumous reputation grew to heights far greater than anything he had achieved while alive.
(10) This gives individuals first authority to control the posthumous disposition of their body parts.
(11) Without that burden, which is considerably lighter in the writings posthumously collected as The Maine Woods and Cape Cod, he comes close to being merely an attentive and eloquent travel writer.
(12) Three patients are also reported whose charts were reviewed posthumously.
(13) The film is another posthumous addition to the Foster Wallace legend.
(14) He was diagnosed with CTE, based on posthumous tests, this month .
(15) But that’s the cruel irony of The Ultimate Defense: it’s always invoked posthumously, when the defendant can’t really defend himself because …well, because he’s dead.
(16) On the occasion of the centenary of Smetana's death they were given an opportunity to examine and assess written and factual posthumous documents from Smetana's estate.
(17) Few tales are more emotive than that of Baby P - the child who posthumously made the headlines in the autumn when his mother and her associates were convicted for battering him to death.
(18) The internet will become constructed entirely of two different sorts of untruth: contemporaneous unalloyed praise and posthumous defamatory hearsay.
(19) AW: And shot by the late, great Conrad Hall, who passed away just recently and got the posthumous Oscar for Road to Perdition.
(20) Those are the kinds of questions Trayvon Martin had to ultimately defend himself against posthumously, despite the fact the unarmed 17 year-old was killed by a gun wielding maniac (who’d eventually walk away free and later harm women ).
Prenatal
Definition:
(a.) Being or happening before birth.
Example Sentences:
(1) The prenatal risk determined by smoking pregnant woman was studied by a fetal electrocardiogram at different gestational ages.
(2) Although chronologic age may not be a good predictor of pregnancy outcome, adolescents remain a high-risk group due to factors which are more common among them such as biologic immaturity, inadequate prenatal care, poverty, minority status, and low prepregnancy weight, and because factors associated with an early adolescent pregnancy, such as low gynecologic age, may continue to influence the outcome of subsequent pregnancies.
(3) Further improvements in the prognosis of low birthweight infants will depend to a large extent on prenatal prevention of disease.
(4) Cloning of the A-T allele(s) will assist in the early or prenatal diagnosis of A-T and provide a firm basis for determining who, in the general population, carries this gene and is therefore at a high risk of cancer.
(5) Governmental officials as well as medical scientists in Taiwan have worked hard in recent years to develop and to implement various measures, such as prenatal diagnosis and neonatal screening, to lower the incidence of hereditary diseases and mental retardation in the population.
(6) The relationship between certain prenatal and background variables and maternal confidence also was assessed.
(7) Results of the present study show that epithelial cells of ciliated columnar type covering vocal cords change remarkably to nonciliated squamous cells between prenatal and postnatal stages.
(8) Women who had little or no prenatal care were oversampled, so this study is not representative of the New York City population.
(9) The first is that the supposed exaggerated winter birthrate among process schizophrenics actually represents a reduction in spring-fall births caused by prenatal exposure to infectious diseases during the preceding winter--i.e., a high prenatal death rate in process preschizophrenic fetuses.
(10) Tay-Sachs disease was diagnosed prenatally on the basis of enzyme assays and the electrophoretic pattern of extracts made from cultured amniotic fluid cells.
(11) These impairments were seen in animals of both sexes, a finding which challenges the view that only females prenatally treated with nicotine show deficits in maze learning.
(12) structural malformations, all congenital defects, and all disorders or abnormalities with possible prenatal etiology.
(13) It is concluded that prenatal sensitization to the immunogenic preparation used is unlikely to have occurred.
(14) In particular, recent work has shown a relationship between early (prenatal) exposure to lead and delayed cognitive development.
(15) Thermostability of placental catalase increases with prenatal development, while the enzyme from fetal liver remains moderately heat-stable throughout the gestation.
(16) The births were categorized by maternal age, the presence or absence of four putative risk factors, and the provision or nonprovision of early prenatal care.
(17) The 27 women who were interviewed had sought prenatal care early, late or not at all.
(18) A case of low atresia of the ileum, diagnosed prenatally by real-time ultrasound scanning, is presented.
(19) Abnormal prenatal findings included maternal pre-eclampsia, fetal growth retardation, and progressive intracranial sonolucency of the trisomic fetus.
(20) Prenatal causes of sensorineural hearing loss in children may be genetic or nongenetic, the deafness occurs alone or with other abnormalities.