The phrase "alive relative" is not a standard expression in written English and may cause confusion.
It could potentially be used in a specific context where one is discussing a relative who is currently living, but it is not commonly used.
Example: "I have an alive relative who can share stories about our family's history."
Alternatives: "living relative" or "surviving family member".
The results were expressed as percentage of cells alive relative to controls.
Parity and classes for piglets born alive relative to the annual herd's mean were combined into an interaction term and included into the model (similar to [ 12]).
In this paper, we have decided to focus on functional longevity, and therefore, we have included the number of piglets born alive relative to the annual herd's mean in our model, to account for phenotypic selection on litter size.
Their ordeal inspired a best-selling book and the 1993 Hollywood film, "Alive". Relatives of the miners welcomed their gesture of support.
My mom is chattering on and on about relatives who are no longer alive, relatives she is no longer in touch with, and relatives who are no longer in their right minds.
"Our kids were on the frontline, but now nobody can tell us whether they are dead or alive," the relative of one firefighter who was among the first to reach the scene of the disaster told the Paper, a Chinese news website.
He died there but here, he's still alive.' Relatives were alive in our house because of my parents telling stories about what they'd left behind".
The body of a 16-year-old girl who police say was buried alive by relatives in an "honor" killing carried out as punishment for talking to boys has been discovered in Kahta, Turkey.
All travelling children were confirmed alive by relatives or neighbours.
Among those miRNAs significantly deregulated between patients and controls, we found that mir-660 was progressively downmodulated in patients with good prognosis (alive) (mir-660 relative expression=0.54±0.35 versus 1.02±0.22, P<0.05), and patients with poor prognosis (dead) (mir-660 relative expression=0.21±0.08 versus 1.02±0.22, P<0.05) compared with disease-free subjects.
For most families, there are only dead bodies and missing relatives, and the odds of finding a relative alive are now small.
