proposita

English

Noun

proposita (plural propositae)

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

propositus (male)

Latin

Participle

prōposita

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

References

proposita in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

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