The first identified case of an inherited disease in a family. The proband or index case. Proposita applies when the patient is female; propositus if male.(noun)
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Use "proposita" in a sentence
"This suggestion provides some rationale for the otherwise mysterious treatment of irrelevant proposita, where one looks away from the posited situation back to reality to guide one's responses."
"Tribus disputationibus in Academia Ultrajectina publice proposita."
"The order in which proposita are proposed no longer matters."