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pro·band

 (prō′bănd′, prō-bănd′)
[German Proband, person being tested, test subject, from Latin probandus, gerundive of probāre, to test; see prove.]
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proband

(ˈprəʊbænd)
n
(Medicine) another name (esp US) for propositus2
[C20: from Latin probandus, gerundive of probāre to test]
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Each proband diagnosed with IDCM had to fulfil all of the following criteria: (z) clinical evidence of cardiac failure with LV dilatation; (z'z) LV ejection fraction (LVEF) of <50% on echocardiography; and (Hi) exclusion of common secondary causes of DCM.
Additional record of hypodontia proband included lateral cephalometric radiograph, dental cast analysis, dental extra oral and intra oral photograph (fig-1).
Proband III-2 has normal FSH, LH and prolactin with low testosterone levels while proband III-7 has hypergonadotrophic hypogonadism with hyperprolactenaemia (Table 1).
The proband was a 20-year-old woman with classical features of TS, including webbed neck, widely-spaced nipples, a high-arched palate, a bicuspid aortic valve, coarctation of the aorta (surgically repaired at one year of age) and a 45,X karyotype on an antenatal amniocentesis.
Each chromosome was analyzed under the optical microscope, considering the presence and the pair of the human chromosomes in a well-defined order The result of the proband sample corresponded to 45, XX, rob(13;15) (q10; q10) (Figure 1).
The task of the "proband"--the ordeal taker--was, as Bishop Eberhard of Bamberg's 12th century breviary instructed, to "plunge his hand into the boiling water" and pluck it out.
Target gene sequencing was used to detect the proband and his 8-year-old daughter, both manifesting a marfanoid aortic sinus and tall stature.