RACIAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does racial mean? 

• RACIAL (adjective)
  The adjective RACIAL has 2 senses:

1. of or related to genetically distinguished groups of people

2. of or characteristic of race or races or arising from differences among groups

  Familiarity information: RACIAL used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RACIAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or related to genetically distinguished groups of people

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

racial groups

Pertainym:

race (people who are believed to belong to the same genetic stock)

Derivation:

race (people who are believed to belong to the same genetic stock)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Of or characteristic of race or races or arising from differences among groups

Context example:

racial discrimination

Similar:

biracial (consisting of or combining two races)

interracial (between races)

multiracial (made up of or involving or acting on behalf of various races)

racist (based on racial intolerance)

Antonym:

nonracial (not racial; having nothing to do with race or races)

 Context examples 

Individuals who do not necessarily identify with any particular race or others who do not wish to self select into a racial category(ies).

(Other Race, NCI Thesaurus)

D2d enrolled a diverse group of participants with a range of physical characteristics, including sex, age, and body mass index, as well as racial and ethnic diversity.

(Vitamin D does not prevent type 2 diabetes in people at high risk, National Institutes of Health)

Relatively uniform groups (e.g. etiologically and pathogenetically more homogeneous, racial, ethnic, or gender-specific, or the disease- or condition-specific) of study subjects formed within a clinical study population for a separate analysis.

(Clinical Study Population Subgroup, NCI Thesaurus)

The inevitable variety in customs, attitudes, practices, and behaviors that exists among groups of individuals from different ethnic, racial, or national backgrounds who come into contact within a social unit, organization, or population.

(Cultural Diversity, NCI Thesaurus)

A person having origins in any of the Black racial groups of Africa.

(African American, NCI Thesaurus)

Every racial or ethnic group has specific health concerns.

(African American Health, NIH)

A coded value specifying a self-declared racial origination, independent of ethnic origination.

(Person Race Code, NCI Thesaurus)

A coded value specifying the self-declared ethnic origination, independent of racial origination.

(Ethnic Group Code, NCI Thesaurus)

Denotes a person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa whose family settled in a South or Central American country such as Argentina, Brazil, or Mexico.

(Black South or Central American, NCI Thesaurus)

The mission of the Kimmel Cancer Center is to make transformational discoveries of the cellular and molecular biology of the malignant process and the individual's and society's response to it; effectively translate the latest research discoveries and clinical trials to provide the highest quality of care to all patients including those of diverse ethnic and racial populations; and provide expert and humanitarian care to cancer patients, their families, and those at risk.

(Kimmel Cancer Center, NCI Thesaurus)