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.
Related to descent through the male line; inheritance of the Y chromosome is exclusively patrilineal. [L. pater, father, + linea, line]. /paÂ·triÂ·linÂ·eÂ·al/ (patâ³rÄ­-linÂ´e-il) descended through the male line.