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.
Adj. 1. matrilineal-based on or tracing descent through the female line; matrilineal inheritance. matrilinear. lineal, direct-in a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child; lineal ancestors; lineal heirs; a direct descendant of the king; direct heredity. Translations.