Strong family history ...
There is often a strong family history of headaches ...
--- Does the word "strong" in the sentence above mean that close relatives (like father, brother, sister) are experiencing headaches or that these headaches happen to them very often?
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I think that "strong" is a bit of a mistake there. It has no specific meaning in this context (and it really had better have when dire medical problems are at stake), and it sounds like the writer vaguely remembered something like it but couldn't see that he was thinking of "strong family resemblance", where "strong" has a meaning. That said, I suppose he meant that many members of the family through many generations had and have headaches.
- I think that "strong" is a bit of a mistake there.
- It has no specific meaning in this context (and it really had better have when dire medical problems are at stake), and it sounds like the writer vaguely remembered something like it but couldn't see that he was thinking of "strong family resemblance", where "strong" has a meaning.
- That said, I suppose he meant that many members of the family through many generations had and have headaches.
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I think that "strong" is a bit of a mistake there. It has no specific meaning in this context (and it really had better have when dire medical problems are at stake), and it sounds like the writer vaguely remembered something like it but couldn't see that he was thinking of "strong family resemblance", where "strong" has a meaning. That said, I suppose he meant that many members of the family
0Newguesta strong family history of headaches
I take this to mean that there is a great deal of evidence regarding the family history of headaches — whether the author intended that meaning or not.
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