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matrilineal
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matrilineal
relating to descent or kinship through the female line


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There are currently no treatments for this family of diseases, which are inherited matrilineally.
Three-parent families: genetics trump politics by Mangu-Ward, Katherine / Reason
[54] The obosomfoo attends to the abosom and provides healing services, and, in this matrilineally inherited but male position, he oversees the "shrine" attendants, including the gender-neutral role of ]--another category of indigenous healers.
Medicine and anthropology in twentieth century Africa: Akan medicine ... by Konadu, Kwasi / African Studies Quarterly
My mother's family was descended, matrilineally, from the founders of three villages in the Fantse rural hinterland near Cape Coast.
What colonial education did to Africans by Armah, Ayi Kwei / New African
 
 
 
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