Clinical judgment and sometimes ethical judgment enter into these decisions where there are often no right or wrong answers and where there are no textbooks or RCTs that tell us what to do.
predecessor - something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone. harbinger, herald, forerunner, precursor. indicant, indication - something that serves to indicate or suggest; an indication of foul play; indications of strain; symptoms are the prime indicants of disease.
Freebase(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition: Father. A father is a male parent or Individual progenitor of human offspring. The adjective paternal refers to a father and comparatively to maternal for a mother. The verb to father means to procreate or to sire a child from which also derives the gerund fathering.