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  • adjective Not familial.

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non- +‎ familial

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  • In full accord with the "back to basics" approach of this proposal, the servicing of home-births would surely be beneficial to those large or new families seeking to avoid the astronomical price, sterility, and nonfamilial atmosphere of the modern hospital.

    A Distributism How To 2007

  • For the resident apprentice-mentor relationship to remain healthy, however, it must not be the exclusive close, nonfamilial relationship that each side has.

    Relating to a Spiritual Teacher: Building a Healthy Relationship ��� Epilogue: Relating to a Western Spiritual Teacher 2000

  • The nonfamilial work showed a strong relationship between the NPY gene variants associated with coronary disease, according to the study published in the Jan. 2 online edition of PLoS Genetics.

    WebWire | Recent Headlines 2009

  • A nonfamilial study used a collection of samples of nearly everyone who has had an angiogram at Duke since 2001, Shah said.

    WebWire | Recent Headlines 2009

  • That’s because it involves nonfamilial relationships, in this case the most common and valuable of all: friendship.

    Shaking the Family Tree Buzzy Jackson 2010

  • That’s because it involves nonfamilial relationships, in this case the most common and valuable of all: friendship.

    Shaking the Family Tree Buzzy Jackson 2010

  • Because SHARP studied the combination of simvastatin and ezetimibe compared with placebo, it was not designed to assess the independent contributions of each drug to the observed effect; for this reason, the FDA did not approve a new indication for VYTORIN or for ZETIA ® (ezetimibe) and the study's efficacy results have not been incorporated into the label for ZETIA.VYTORIN is indicated as adjunctive therapy to diet for the reduction of total cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, apolipoprotein B, triglycerides, and non-HDL cholesterol, and to increase HDL cholesterol in patients with primary (heterozygous familial and nonfamilial) hyperlipidemia or mixed hyperlipidemia when diet alone is not enough.

    Forbes.com: News Larry Husten 2012

  • McGinnis is survived in life by grandmother Vivian Collins; mother Linda White; stepfather Andrew Ward; sister Tracy Jaramillo; brother-in-law Luis Jaramillo and two beautiful young nieces and two nonfamilial brothers, Quinn Whitten and Seth Gates.

    Summit Daily News - Top Stories 2009

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