(n.) One of a race of people occupying a large part of Eastern and Northern Europe, including the Russians, Bulgarians, Roumanians, Servo-Croats, Slovenes, Poles, Czechs, Wends or Sorbs, Slovaks, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) From a total of 490 cystic fibrosis (CF) high-risk families under supervision (mostly Russian Slavs from the European part of the country), DNA data including both direct screening for some CF gene (CFTR) mutations (delF508, G551D and 1677delTA) and allelic polymorphism studies with tightly CF linked DNA markers were collected from 261 families.
(2) I didn't see any nationalists, although most of the guys there were Slavs.
(3) The low average frequency of delF508 in CF chromosomes of Russian Slavs (50 per cent), its remarkable inter-population variation, and the significant proportion of at-risk families without an affected child determine the necessity of combined molecular and biochemical (MVE assay) approaches for efficient prenatal diagnosis of CF in the former U.S.S.R.
(4) West Ham’s Dimitri Payet: ‘One day I might be at the level of Eric Cantona’ Read more “Super Slav” sang the travelling support as their manager savoured his second win in the Premier League .
(5) Chris You go Slav if you like … when I first heard it it kind of reminded me of something that the Marx Brothers would interrupt.
(6) Absence of a reliable difference between gene pools of the Slav groups of the population and of Hungarians may point to the local origin of the later.
(7) The results show that Ukrainians among the Slav populations ranked as the lowest with 2.07 children born per woman.
(8) "There are just Slav people who used to be in Kievan Rus, before Jews like Trotsky divided us.
(9) Producing a long knife, he said: "I can't kill my brother Slavs."
(10) The previous highest use of stop-and-search powers against ethnic groups was on the Moscow Metro, where non-Slavs are 21.8 times more likely to be stopped by Russian police than Slavs.
Slavonic
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Slavonia, or its inhabitants.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the Slavs, or their language.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, in comparison to studies from Western Germany, a significantly lower percentage of just over 60% is found in our patients, resembling data obtained from slavonic populations.
(2) UK-Russian trade programmes "are either going to be completely cancelled or scaled down", said Eugene Nivorozhkin, a lecturer at UCL's School of Slavonic and East European Studies.
(3) Emeritus Professor of Russian History School of Slavonic Studies, University College London and Co-founder, Nightline.
(4) These results support the view that the trans-European gradient of the delta F508 frequency is of a geographical rather than of an ethnic origin, and that in Slavonic populations, there exists an as yet unidentified but frequent CF mutation other than delta F508, associated with the B haplotype.
(5) The Slavonic and Eastern European Studies master’s student said some of his housemates had seen rodents climbing in through the windows from the scaffolding surrounding the building.
(6) Since the latter haplotype has also been found in Yugoslavs, Ukrainians and Czechs, it is possible that A25-B18 represents a Slavonic marker.
(7) He was forced out and returned to Britain where he took up the chair in Slavonic Studies at Manchester University.