Noun: proband
| Singular | proband |
| Plural | probands |
Sample Sentences
-
The proband was 8 years old and had a dyseidetic pattern, as did his father, who was also tested. [1992, Helene V. Fatt, Genetics for Primary Eye Care Practitioners, page 82:]
Nouns inflected like proband
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From international scientific vocabulary, from New Latin, from Latin probandus (“the one to be tested”) (denoting, in this application, the first one tested); By surface analysis, probe + -and. See: Latin Nouns '
probandus'.