propositus
About 0.04 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun The first identified male case of an inherited disease in a family; the proband or index case.
The propositus was an elderly man who passed on the disorder to three of his four children and 9 of 14 grandchildren.
Similar words
proposita protoplast index case progenate progenitor primogenitor progenitour predisponent ancestor progenitorship
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Word family
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