biological relative
collocation in Englishmeaningsofbiologicalandrelative
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biological
adjective
uk/ˌbaɪ.əˈlɒdʒ.ɪ.kəl/us/ˌbaɪ.əˈlɑː.dʒɪ.kəl/
connected with the natural processes of ...
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relative
noun[C]
uk/ˈrel.ə.tɪv/us/ˈrel.ə.t̬ɪv/
a member of ...
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(Definition ofbiologicalandrelativefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Even among biological relatives there are significant differences in temperament.
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Therefore, it can be expected that biological relatives of probands with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder may exhibit similar latent information processing and cognitive markers.
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Antisaccade performance is abnormal in schizophrenia patients but not in their biological relatives.
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Saccadic system functioning among schizophrenia patients and their firstdegree biological relatives.
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Upon initial screening, probands were questioned about eating disorders in their male and female biological relatives.
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Antisaccade performance is impaired in medically and psychiatrically healthy biological relatives of schizophrenia patients.
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Saccadic disinhibition in patients with acute and remitted schizophrenia and their first-degree biological relatives.
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In conclusion, our results indicate that highly functioning biological relatives of patients with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder show discrete information processing and cognitive abnormalities.
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Similar studies in biological relatives of bipolar patients are extremely rare and, to our knowledge, head-to-head comparisons with matched relatives of schizophrenia patients have not been available yet.
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For although ' unequal ', domestic servants experienced almost the same range of ' interest and emotion ' relationships with their employers and each other as biological relatives within the tiny domain.
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T1, by asking the subject whether any of his firstdegree biological relatives had experienced a depression and/or delusions or hallucinations during the last 12 months.
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Some cases of evolution by natural selection can only be understood by considering how biological relatives influence each other's fitness.
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Someone allergic to walnuts or pecans may not have an allergy to cashews or pistachios, even though close biological relatives often share related allergenic proteins.
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Although technically brother and sister, the couple were not biological relatives.
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Not surprisingly, our closest biological relatives, the great apes, tend to do best on such an assessment.
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But all her biological relatives are dead or unknown.
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In some studies, a ten-fold increase in the prevalence of the disorder in first-degree biological relatives has been observedhowever, the exact link to inheritance is not known.
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