What is "familial"

Usage examples of "familial".

Familial breast cancer: Collaborative reanalysis of individual data from 52 epidemiological studies including 58,209 women with breast cancer and 101,986 women without the disease.

Justyn was for taking him in and apprenticing him without an apprenticing fee or any kind of familial relationship.

Charlotte Masham was the third generation of her family to have been born in America, so it was hard to believe that any familial ties to the Old World remained.

His boarding house was not expecting him, he and the other Mohocks having contrived a simultaneous two-night exeunt for a variety of reasons, medical, educational, familial.

Lord Baron Reichert, had used the pretext of familial insult to add to his lands more than once.

Iberia has always been an insular place, Shintoistic, protective of its traditions, virtually incestuous in its familial relationships and attitudes toward outsiders.

And yet, here too, they are unforgettably framed as a unit, as a legend about the familial shape of passing time, the female contours of history.

In the house of Master Lokos, she had her first taste of true, familial affection, for the master and his plump, jolly wife customarily treated apprentices like the sons and daughters they had never had.

As a result, and in the absence of true parents, he had spent most of his youth wandering about the streets and bazaars of Drallar, seeking diversion and enlightenment in place of familial comfort.

Marla never has any fat of her own, and her mom figures that familial collagen would be better than Marla ever having to use the cheap cow kind.

His familial connections guaranteed him an audience with Lascaille whenever he wanted -- provided he ignored Calvin's forebodings.

Batu shook his head, chastising himself for allowing familial feelings to interfere with his duty.

The cops were watching him, probably to see if he was going to throw up, but the wave of nausea passed, replaced by a pang of long-lost familial hurt, the kind of hurt he had not experienced since watching the news tapes of those federal bastards cremating his son at Waco.

The birth-related disability that wasn't even definitively diagnosed until Mario was six and had let Orin tattoo his shoulder with the red coil of an immersion heater is called Familial Dysautonomia, a neurological deficit whereby he can't feel physical pain very well.

Some enterprising priest of a later dynasty had used the tomb for his own familial burial ground.