degree of kinship

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degree of kinship n. the level of relationship between two persons related by blood, such as parent to child, one sibling to another, grandparent to grandchild or uncle to nephew, first cousins, etc. This may become important when determining the heirs of an estate when there is no will. (See: descent)

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degree descent Descent and Distribution			They took a similar tack last year when they tried to attack overcrowding by redefining what constitutes a family - one or more persons occupying a dwelling unit and living together as a single housekeeping unit, not including a group of more than three persons who are not within the second degree of kinship. Milford puts rental housing in tight corset by Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA) A recipient of a live-organ donor is restricted to the one who is the spouse, lineal relative to by blood of, and collateral relative by blood onto the third degree of kinship with the live organ donor. Chinese taking steps toward changing organ donor and transplant ... by Transplant News Scientists have mused that inbreeding might also create an extraordinary degree of kinship among the two species of mole-rats that live in supersocial colonies. Mole-rats: kissing but not quite cousins. (Zoology) by Science News			defrayment defrock deft deftness defugere defunct defy defying defying lawful authority degeneracy degenerare degenerate degenerateness degeneratess degenerating degeneration degenerative degradation degrade degraded degraded person Degrading degredi degree degree of importance degree of kinship degreeholder Degrees dehiscent dehonestare Dehors dehort dehortari dehortation dehortative dehortatory dehumanized Dei judicium deicere deific deifical deification deify deign deign to give deign to grant dejected dejectedness dejection Del credere delate			Degree of consanguinity Degree of consanguinity Degree of consanguinity Degree of consanguinity Degree of consanguinity Degree Of Cooperation degree of crystallinity degree of current rectification degree of curve degree of degeneracy Degree of differentiation Degree of differentiation Degree of differentiation Degree of differentiation Degree of Difficulty Degree of Disability Management Degree of Dissociation degree of enrichment degree of esterification Degree of Financial Leverage degree of freedom degree of freedom degree of freedom degree of freedom Degree of frost Degree of Germinal Epithelial Loss Degree of Honor Lodge degree of importance Degree of Integration Degree of Interference degree of kinship Degree of latitude Degree of Linear Polarization Degree of longitude Degree of Mineralization of Bone Tissue Degree of Multiprogramming degree of nuclear risk Degree of Operating Leverage Degree of parallelism Degree of Platelet Aggregation Inhibition Degree of Polarization Degree of polymerisation Degree of polymerization Degree of polymerization Degree of Protection Degree of proximity Degree of Redundancy degree of risk Degree of saturation Degree of saturation Degree of smallness Degree of smallness Degree of smallness Degree of smallness Degree of Substitution Degree of Superiority Degree of Total Leverage Degree of unsaturation Degree of Variation degree of voltage rectification

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