Meanings of consanguineous marriage in English

The distribution of 514 cases of consanguineous marriage from genealogies was as follows:

There is, therefore, a strong indication of lowered vitality as a result of consanguineous marriage.

We found a 50% rate of consanguineous marriage, independent of the community of origin.

It is doubtless a mating of like with like; and biologically, consanguineous marriage is nothing more.

An 11-yr-old girl, born out of a consanguineous marriage presented with recurrent exertional syncope due to ventricular tachycardia.

The conclusions, then, in regard to the frequency of consanguineous marriage in the United States may be summarized as follows:

Such acknowledgement is due to the many genealogists and other friends who have kindly furnished detailed cases of consanguineous marriage.

The cases of two sisters from a consanguineous marriage with the syndrome of renal magnesium wasting, hypercalciuria and nephrocalcinosis are presented.

Honesty demands, therefore, that consanguineous marriage be not credited with results for which the consanguineous element is in no wise responsible.

The most important physiological effect of consanguineous marriage is to intensify any or all inheritable family characteristics or peculiarities by double inheritance.

If one is going to credit consanguineous marriage with these evil results, what can one say when evil results fail to follow?

Wherever statistics have been gathered it is the rule that the percentage of consanguineous marriage is greater in rural than in urban districts.

We are unable to see in such a history as that of Hopetown, Bahama Islands, any evidence that consanguineous marriage necessarily results in degeneracy.

And when rational laws prohibit the marriage of the diseased and the degenerate, the problem of consanguineous marriage will cease to be of vital importance.

Dr. Bemiss found a very high death-rate among the children of consanguineous marriage, due partly to the fact that his cases were reported by physicians.

Consanguinity means blood relationship, and consanguineous marriages are marriages between near blood relatives.