proposita

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English

Noun

proposita (plural propositae)

  1. The first identified female case of an inherited disease in a family; the proband or index case.
    The proposita was an elderly woman who passed on the disorder to three of her four children and 9 of 14 grandchildren.

Coordinate terms

Latin

Participle

prōposita

  1. inflection of prōpositus:
    1. nominative/vocative/ablative feminine singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

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