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INUIT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A member of a people inhabiting the Arctic (northern Canada or Greenland or Alaska or eastern Siberia); the Algonquians called them Eskimo ('eaters of raw flesh') but they call themselves the Inuit ('the people')
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Hypernyms ("Inuit" is a kind of...):
Amerindian; Native American (any member of the peoples living in North or South America before the Europeans arrived)
Context examples:
The scientists analyzed SNPs from 191 Inuit and compared them with SNPs from 60 Europeans and 44 Han Chinese that were part of other genetic variation studies.
(Genetic Adaptations to Diet and Climate, NIH)
Norse artefacts have previously been found among the remains of 13th and 14th century Inuit settlements in this most northern of regions.
(Over-hunting walruses contributed to the collapse of Norse Greenland, University of Cambridge)
One SNP was the same in almost all the Inuit, but only about 2% of the Europeans and 16% of the Han Chinese had it.
(Genetic Adaptations to Diet and Climate, NIH)
The team found another region of genetic variation common to the Inuit that includes genes thought to be involved in the regulation of brown and brite fat cells.
(Genetic Adaptations to Diet and Climate, NIH)
The Inuit, natives of Greenland, live in extremely cold conditions that can hover in the negative digits in winter.
(Genetic Adaptations to Diet and Climate, NIH)
The scientists noted that several of the genetic differences in the Inuit were associated with other characteristics, including a lower height and weight and lower levels of fasting insulin and LDL cholesterol levels, which could potentially protect against heart disease and diabetes.
(Genetic Adaptations to Diet and Climate, NIH)
