English Explanatory Dictionary

proband

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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.

Word forms

proband probands

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.

Related words

index case index patient patient zero

Derived words

probandwise
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