Definition of "proposita" []

• 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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• "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."