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paternally en · ADV

Pronunciation

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• /pəˈtɝnəli/ (Canada, US)

Etymology

Etymology tree English paternal Middle English -ly English -ly English paternally From paternal + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a paternal manner; fatherly.
   • Because Gαs is paternally imprinted in certain hormone target tissues, maternal inheritance of AHO leads to multihormone resistance [pseudohypoparathyroidism type 1a (PHP1a)], whereas paternal inheritance leads to AHO alone pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism (pseudoPHP)]. Classically, the obesity in AHO is described as occurring similarly in both conditions. 2007, Dominique N. Long, Sarah McGuire, Michael A. Levine, Lee S. Weinstein, Emily L. Germain-Lee, Body Mass Index Differences in Pseudohypoparathyroidism Type 1a Versus Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism May Implicate Paternal Imprinting of Gαs in the Development of Human Obesity: Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, volume 92, number 3, pages 1073–1079:
   • Why they selected Boudicca […]to lead them into battle, rather than either of Prasutagus' daughters, or any number of eligible paternally related kin, is lost in the mists of time. 1996, Jack George Thompson, Women in Celtic Law and Culture, Edwin Mellen Press, →ISBN, page 53:
   • […] in Little Women everyone's favourite tomboy Jo March is eventually tamed into a 'good wife' by the paternally mansplainy Professor Bhaer […] 2015, Emily Berry, edited by Antonia Fraser, The Pleasure of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books that Inspired Them, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, pages 306–307:

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