(1) The sexual attitudes and beliefs of 20 children who have been present at the labor and delivery of sibs and have observed the birth process are compared with 20 children who have not been present at delivery.
(2) We document four patients, including two sibs, with asphyxiating thoracic dystrophy and mild congenital hydrocephalus.
(3) However the study does not permit to reach any valid conclusions; further elaborate investigations alone could prove the useful role of genetic influence in the propagation of lepromin sensitivity to the subsequent sibs.
(4) The residual values were positively correlated in parent-offspring pairs and among sibs, both those presumed to be living together and those presumed to be living apart.
(5) A case of fragile-X syndrome (the Martin-Bell syndrome) in two male half-sibs from different marriages of their mother was described.
(6) No evidence was found of sex ratio anomalies in other classes of relative of pyloric stenosis index cases, whether or not the index cases had affected sibs.
(7) The ibd for grandparent-grandchild pairs is least affected by recombination, followed by sibs, half-sib, uncle-nephew, and first-cousin pairs.
(8) Nonagouti rats were significantly easier to approach, capture, and handle than their agouti sibs.
(9) This sib risk was apparent for probands with only a single hemivertebrum in addition to probands with more extensive vertebral defects and would support an etiological relationship between neural tube defects and other vertebral malformations.
(10) None of the sibs had BRA when the index case had BRA as part of a multiple malformation complex.
(11) probands and the estimated, future prevalence was found to be the same in sibs and children.
(12) The concept of LPC can also be used to interpret two factors which have been proposed to select for the Hamiltonian sex ratios: local mate competition is LPC acting through sons; and sib mating is LPC acting through daughters.
(13) We describe the concurrence of severe distal osteolysis, mental retardation, short stature, and characteristic facial appearance with maxillary hypoplasia and relative exophthalmos in two adult sibs, a 57-year-old woman and her deceased brother.
(14) To determine the relationship between so-called "diastrophic variant" and diastrophic dysplasia, four patients considered to have the variant condition were studied in detail and compared to 67 patients (including 17 sets of affected sibs) considered to have classical diastrophic dysplasia.
(15) The affected sib pair method revealed that in asthmatic families chi 2 = 4.9 (no significance) and in DF-specific IgE positive families chi 2 = 6.2 (p less than 0.05).
(16) CP proband frequencies of .004 for maternal half sibs and .009 for the paternal counterparts were also found.
(17) There is an early-onset form (with onset of symptoms under 2 years of age) where the illness is milder but more persistent, and where there is frequent occurrence of myasthenia in sibs.
(18) The increase is found with estimates of h2 based both on offspring mid-parent regression and on half sib analyses, but may be more marked with the former.
(19) Cumulative risk estimates were 26% for sibs born after the proband and 11% for sibs born before the proband (p less than 0.001).
(20) The one in three risk of spondylolysis to near relatives of patients with the dysplastic form of spondylolisthesis is emphasised in order that the deformity in their sibs and children can be recognised at any early age.
Sob
Definition:
(v. t.) To soak.
(v. i.) To sigh with a sudden heaving of the breast, or with a kind of convulsive motion; to sigh with tears, and with a convulsive drawing in of the breath.
(n.) The act of sobbing; a convulsive sigh, or inspiration of the breath, as in sorrow.
(n.) Any sorrowful cry or sound.
Example Sentences:
(1) "After I saw you there, I just went out and sobbed.
(2) The results suggest that (i) the SOS response of E. coli and the SOB response of B. subtilis are strikingly similar from both a phenotypic and a regulatory standpoint and that RecA and LexA protein analogs exist in B. subtilis, (ii) the Recbs protein is capable of regulating its own production, and (iii) SOS-inducing (RecA-activating) signals are generated in B. subtilis following either DNA damage or the development of physiological competence.
(3) Effects of amygdaloid lesions on the switch-off behavior (SOB) and behavioral changes induced by a delayed reinforcement (DR) for SOB were investigated in 12 cats.
(4) Acts of kindness move Langham to tears, and before long another memory has him sobbing.
(5) He went from minstrel show to blackface, from vaudeville to Broadway before he hit a fabulous prosperity as the most sentimental of all sentimental singers, a poor Russian cantor's son daubed with burnt cork and down on one knee sobbing for the "mammy" he had never known in a south that nobody ever knew.
(6) No one photographs the child with learning difficulty, sobbing as the teaching assistant they worked with for the past three years is booted out.
(7) He is very kind, honest, funny,” she said on Monday, sobbing as she remembered her only child, who had been flying home from Malaysia, where he was studying.
(8) In a televised meeting that has gone viral, the German chancellor rubs the shoulder of a sobbing teenager after telling her she was one of “thousands and thousands” of refugees that her country was unable to help.
(9) Since then, the cursing and sobbing have been plentiful.
(10) "This depressing morning has now got me questioning my pitiful existence," sobs James Dodge.
(11) She is generally a happy person, but in the last few weeks she has been showing signs of deep anxiety, phoning me sobbing with fear.
(12) The 56-year-old held a tissue to her face and sobbed during a five-minute hearing at City of Westminster magistrates court in central London.
(13) Liam Stacey , 21, of Pontypridd, south Wales, sobbed as he was taken away after the failed appeal hearing at Swansea crown court.
(14) The paper's "special investigation", headlined "No ID, no checks … and vouchers for sob stories: the truth behind those shock food bank claims", suggested that claims about the scale of Britain's welfare problems had been exaggerated.
(15) I sobbed for the last 30 pages but not, perhaps, for the reason you'd expect.
(16) Naturally I confronted them about it, halting their child's progress with a foot on the front bumper, loudly berating their crass behaviour while impressed pedestrians looked on, cheering and punching the air and chanting my name until Audi boy's parents fell to the ground, clutching pitifully at my trouser-legs and sobbing for forgiveness.
(17) 4.59pm BST "My fiancee have decided to get married in whichever country wins the World Cup so this game really has me torn," sobs Nate Philipps.
(18) She was followed by several women who must have been relatives or neighbours living nearby; the cries and sobs were so loud they could be heard clearly over the shooting and chanting from the street.
(19) "It's just so depressing this whole situation," sobs Angus Chisholm.
(20) One hand held the corner of the tomb and he sobbed uncontrollably into the other.