NOUN
- part of a patient's medical history in which questions are asked in an attempt to find out whether the patient has hereditary tendencies toward particular diseases
How To Use family history In A Sentence
- I know by my family history that a forebear of mine turned on the gods of Mother India and professed faith to the One True God.
- Only people who can trace their family history in Kuwait back before 1920 are entitled to citizenship.
- In many cases where young boys sexually offend there was a family history of emotional, sexual and physical abuse.
- For example, a family history of multiple relatives with Down syndrome suggests an inherited translocation, not sporadic non-disjunction.
- In January 1998, I started to get interested in genealogy and family history.
- The 101 is also available on microfiche at the Family History Library.
- Infants at high risk for hearing loss are those with a family history of hereditary childhood sensorineural hearing loss, hyperbilirubinemia, ototoxic medications, bacterial meningitis, birth weight of less than 1500 grams (3.3 pounds), in-utero infections, craniofacial abnormailites, low apgar scores, mechanical ventilation of 5 days or longer, or other syndromes known to included hearing loss. Emaxhealth
- Doctors failed to properly investigate a woman with a family history of heart disease who died within a year of showing classic symptoms of a heart condition, it was alleged yesterday.
- I see people in libraries and archives and Family History Centres, obsessed with finding traces of family in microform, in scraps of paper, officially, and sometimes arbitrarily, preserved for posterity.
- For instance, the removal of her breast buds is because she has a family history of breast cancer and this will prevent her from having to develop that. Ashley's Treatment
