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Definition of Sibship
1. a group of sibs [n -S]
Medical Definition of Sibship
1. 1. The reciprocal state between individuals who have the same pair of parents. 2. All progeny of one pair of parents. Origin: A.S. Sib, relationship (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sibship
Literary usage of Sibship
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Eugenic Laboratory Memoirs by Galton Laboratory for National Eugenics (1907)
"The actual number of insane lies between 1 and 4 to the sibship, and the correlation
between age of the oldest member and the number of insane was found to ..."
2. Collected Papers (1922)
"In the father's sibship only 10 per cent, survived to age 50, in the mother's
sibship 75 per cent, survived to that age, and in the offspring sibship 87.5 ..."
3. SAS/Genetics(tm) 9.1.3 User's Guide by Wendy Czika, Xiang Yu, Virginia Clark, Rob Pratt (2005)
"The notation from the S-TDT is used, except now the quantities a,u,r,s, and Y
are defined for each sibship/family, so for example, there are a affected ..."
4. The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I. by Frederick Pollock, Frederic William Maitland (1898)
"Thus first cousins are in the first degree of sibship; second cousins in the second.
Now what with the Boman method and the German method, what with now an ..."
5. The History of English Law Before the Time of Edward I by Frederick Pollock, Frederic William Maitland (1899)
"Thus first cousins are in the first degree of sibship; second cousins in the second.
Now what with the Roman method and the German method, what with now an ..."
6. SAS/Genetics 9.1 User's Guide by Wendy Czika, Xiang Yu, Virginia Clark, Rob Pratt (2004)
"Horvath, S. and Laird, NM (1998), "A Discordant-sibship Test for Disequilibrium
and Linkage: No Need for Parental Data," American Journal of Human Genetics, ..."
7. The Journal of Heredity by American Genetic Association (1914)
"... of brothers and sisters borne to the of the word sibling to designate each of
the individuals making up a sibship, whatever be his or same parents. ..."
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