proposita

English

Noun

proposita (plural propositae)

1. The first identified female case of an inherited disease in a family; the proband or index case.

   The proposita was an elderly woman who passed on the disorder to three of her four children and 9 of 14 grandchildren.

Coordinate terms

• propositus (male)

Latin

Participle

prōposita

1. inflection of prōpositus:
   1. nominative/vocative/ablative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

References

• proposita in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)