proposita (plural propositae)
- The first identified female case of an inherited disease in a family; the proband or index case.
- The proposita was an elderly woman who passed on the disorder to three of her four children and 9 of 14 grandchildren.
prōposita
- inflection of prōpositus:
- nominative/vocative/ablative feminine singular
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural