I had a tooth pulled on Friday and now the blood clot that was over the extraction site is gone and I can now see what appears to be either bone or a piece of tooth sticking out of the site. I have eaten nothing but soft mushy foods since surgery, nothing I have had to chew.
â¢ PATRILINEAGE (noun). The noun PATRILINEAGE has 1 sense: 1. line of descent traced through the paternal side of the family. Familiarity information: PATRILINEAGE used as a noun is very rare.
Matrilineal refers to familial relationships that can be traced through a female. To follow the matrilineal line in your family, start with your mom. In Latin, matri-refers to the mother, just as patri-refers to the father. Lineal is a word that refers to someone's lineage, or the line of people that came before that person; so the adjective matrilineal describes anything related to kinship through a female line.