proband

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Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
15
Letters
7

Definition of proband

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. An individual who presents with a genetic disorder or other specific characteristic, when this leads to the genetic investigation of the individual's family.
    “The proband was 8 years old and had a dyseidetic pattern, as did his father, who was also tested.”

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Etymology

From international scientific vocabulary, from New Latin, from Latin probandus (“the one to be tested”) (denoting, in this application, the first one tested); By surface analysis, probe + -and.

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