maternal

[məˈtɜːrnl]

Definition:
1. Characteristic of a mother.
2. Relating to or derived from one's mother.
3. Relating to or characteristic of or befitting a parent.
4. Related on the mother's side.

Use 'maternal' in a sentence:

1. MODS is one of the direct causes of maternal death.
2. There is already some evidence suggesting that the ringed seal, a phocids species that is similar in size to the harbor seal, may also use a maternal foraging strategy.
3. Teaching Innovation and Practice of Maternal and Child Health Care.
4. First part of maternal literature understanding.
5. Maternal health and newborn health are closely linked.
6. Indicators and their application to Maternal and child Health Care.
7. Maternal; Cause of death; Dynamic monitoring.
8. The Study on the Index System of Maternal and Child Health Service in Chinese Urban and Rural Areas.
9. My maternal grandfather and his four siblings, who in the 1940s each inherited what today would be millions of dollars.
10. "We've known for a long time that maternal education is important," says John Cleland of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
11. Strengthen Community Health Service and Reduce Maternal Mortality Rate.
12. More progress must be made in reducing maternal deaths.
13. Her feelings towards him were almost maternal.
14. The analysis of maternal death in Xian area from 1980~ 1990.
15. Influence of social factors on the maternal mortality rate in the rural areas.
16. Maternal zinc copper and calcium level in neural tube defects.
17. We are promoting child and maternal health.
18. But touch is not the only source of maternal comfort.
19. My interpreter, who is a doctor, and I were on a mission to photograph maternal health and mortality issues.
20. There was no difference in maternal lactate among three groups.
21. Developing county& level maternal and child health cause under socialist market economy.
22. Fetal mRNA quantitative analysis from 50 maternal peripheral blood samples.
23. Optimum Time of Maternal Blood Sampling for Prenatal Diagnosis with Fetal Cells.
24. The document concludes that the high risk of infant, child, and maternal mortality is associated with pregnancies where mothers are too young, too old, or have already had several children.
25. I was happy, I have a great maternal love.
26. How about maternal instincts?
27. The analysis of the causes and change of maternal mortality in 42 years.
28. Study of Indicator System For Comprehensive Evaluation the Quality of Maternal and Child Health Care.
29. Article 28 Grandparents or maternal grandparents who can afford it shall have the duty to bring up their grandchildren or maternal grandchildren who are minors and whose parents are dead or have no capacity of bringing them up.
30. Study of Comparing Efficiency of Fetal DNA Extracting from Maternal Cells and Plasma.
31. My maternal grandmother had a stroke in October.
32. The maternal strategy evolved by harbor seals may have to do with their small size and the large proportion of their fat stores depleted in lactation.
33. Maternal mortality is unacceptably high.
34. Uterine hypocontractility should be augmented after both the maternal pelvis and fetal presentation have been assessed.
35. The maternal and child health care services in poor county.
36. Bruce Stephen honored my maternal grandfather, Benjamin Samuel Abeshouse, who had died three years before my birth.
37. I didn't have as strong a maternal instinct as some other mothers.
38. She didn't have any maternal instincts.
39. Infant and maternal mortality rates went down 132 percent and 147 percent respectively.
40. His maternal grandfather had been that Francisco Flores, of the Second Line-Infantry Division, who had died on the frontier of Buenos Aires.
41. Mr Sarkozy, whose maternal grandfather was a Jew from Salonika, is the first French president born after the war.
42. A more fanciful theory is that Mr. Sarkozy has a natural sympathy for the country that was home to his maternal grandfather, a Jew from Thessaloniki.
43. Her maternal grandfather was Mayor of Karachi.
44. Her maternal grandfather was mayor of Karachi.
45. After having been subjugated to ambition, your maternal instincts are at last starting to assert themselves.
46. She had little maternal instinct.
47. I'm not very maternal.
48. Maternal smoking can damage the unborn child.
49. Genetic abnormalities are more often associated with faults in paternal DNA than in maternal DNA.
50. He is my maternal uncle.
51. Maternal age affects the baby's survival rate.