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An arrow marking the individual the chart was drawn for.
Also known as: Index case, Arrow pointing at a symbol in a family chart
A small arrow at the lower left of one shape, pointing at the person through whom the family came to attention. It records how the chart came to exist, which shapes what the chart can and cannot show.
A small arrow at the lower left of an individual's shape marking the proband, the person through whom the family was first brought to clinical attention.
Contexts: Medicine
Recorded because the chart is built outward from this person, which means information thins with distance from them and the family was selected for study because of them.
Distinguished from the consultand, the person who actually sought the advice, who may be a relative rather than the proband and is marked separately.
A short straight arrow with an open head, set at the lower left of a shape and pointing up and to the right at it.