Meaning of familial in English

familial

adjective [ before noun ]

formal

/fəˈmɪl.i.əl/ us

/fəˈmɪl.i.əl/

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similar to that in a family:

a familial relationship

affecting several members of the same family:

a familial disease

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(Definition of familial from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of familial

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The finding demonstrates well the simplicity of equating co-residence with ' closeness ' and ' care ', and that innovations in constructive familial mutuality are ubiquitous but little understood.

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Second, does the occurrence of chronic diseases within a family change/ create perceptions of familial susceptibility?

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The article argues that, whilst aesthetic influences played a part in this transition, it was chiefly prompted by the sentimentalization of familial ideals.

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Woods is sensitive to this perspective in that his account focuses on familial, kin and community relationships.

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The attributable risk for shigella-associated diarrhoea due to intra-familial transmission was 50%.

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There are indications from the familial correspondence we have studied that it was tending towards disappearance even in the late 15th century.

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If such patients were included, it is unclear what familial association, if any, would be expected.

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Few studies have investigated the nature of this familial aggregation.

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Estimates of additive genetic effects (a2) from twin studies arise from the use of familial resemblance to infer genomic variation.

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They conclude that their results are compatible with an independent familial transmission of the disorders with co-morbidity caused by non-familial etiological factors.

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The current sample consists only of sib-pairs, so we obtained an index of familial vulnerability of an individual from their sibling's trait values.

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The clinical characteristics of major depression as indices of the familial risk to illness.

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All of these to a greater or lesser extent are founded upon birth, familial relations, and/or identity politics.

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In the opera this familial aspect is underlined but, paradoxically, it is a way of introducing the fantastic.

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Issues of regional and familial cultural identity have provided much of the impetus to expand these programmes in the region.

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