familial
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
taxonomy
Etymology: From French familial (“relating to a family; familial”), from Latin familia (“family (in the sense of the slaves working for a household); household”) (from famulus (“servant; slave”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁-m-eló-, from *dʰeh₁- (“to do, place, put”)) + French -al (adjective-forming suffix) (from Latin -ālis, from Proto-Indo-European *-li-). By surface analysis, family + -al. Piecewise doublet of familiar.
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Senses:
gloss: Of or pertaining to a human family.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Mark had to leave work due to familial obligations.
Asylums and the Care of the Insane.—Dr. Wille, the director of the recently opened asylum for the Canton of Zurich, at Rheinau, delivered a lecture on this subject to the Swiss Association of Alienists. […] In discussing the mode of providing for the incurable, he refers to the familial system and the agricultural colony. […] Another kind of familial treatment is when under similar circumstances improved patients are discharged from an establishment, but after their discharge they are still more or less looked after in connection with the establishment, and receive superintendence by the authorities, or by organised associations.
The Aztec artists strove with rare consistency to depict the gods as shocking. Though anthropomorphically conceived, however, the gods are still not presented to us as comprehensible. They are buried under a plethora of symbols and rendered inanimate by severe and rigid stylization. We are not asked to reply to the majesty of Huitzilopochtli, the sexuality of Tlazolteotl, the largess of Tlaloc, or the familial warmth of Xiuhteuctli. Rather we are placed in front of the grotesque, the absurd, the impossible, even the disgusting, and through these means we are asked to appreciate the nature of the gods.
In part [Antonio] Conte pulled this off because his manner and his own playing record demand respect. But also he brought back the fun, encouraging a familial atmosphere with barbecues, bottles of wine handed out, and bonding sessions with players and club staff.
gloss: Pertaining to a taxon at the rank of family.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Having milky latex is a familial characteristic of Apocynaceae.
gloss: Of or pertaining to any grouping of things referred to as a family.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: "Grandfather", "mother", and "brother" are some English familial terms.
The late Eocene was a fascinating time with respect to community changes among terrestrial organisms. Among the mammals, for example, the greatest worldwide ordinal (26 total) and familial (about 120, plus bats and modern-type whales) diversity occurred.
As emphasized previously, any particular character varies enormously from group to group in its taxonomic value, and it is quite impossible to predict this value in a group in which that character has not been previously investigated. Stamen number, for example, can be a familial, generic or specific character, or vary greatly within one taxon. The same is true of dioecism, equally so in the bryophytes and flowering plants.
gloss: Inherited.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: fatal familial insomnia
Cerebral CMs [cavernous malformations] are, for the majority of cases, sporadic lesions. However, familial incidences have been documented for quite some time. In 1928, Kufs reported two cases: an 81-year-old man who presented with "multiple intercranial nodular telangiectases," and his daughter, suspected of harboring a lesion in the pons.
Familial history of cerebral aneurysms in several families has been reported. […] To determine whether familial history is a risk factor, [Wouter] Schievink et al conducted a community-based study of familial aneurysmal SAH [subarachnoid hemorrhage].
Related words: familiar
familiarity
familiarly
family
Derived words: allofamilial
cofamilial
confamilial
defamilialized
extrafamilial
familial British dementia
familial DNA
familialism
familiality
familialized
familially
familial Mediterranean fever
fatal familial insomnia
infrafamilial
interfamilial
intrafamilial
intrasubfamilial
multifamilial
nonfamilial
postfamilial
sociofamilial
subfamilial
superfamilial
suprafamilial
unfamilial
unifamilial
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