How was Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. related to writer and physician Oliver Wendell Holmes?

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. was the son of the celebrated writer and physician Oliver Wendell Holmes.12

While the elder Holmes was a renowned poet, humorist, and medical researcher, his son, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., pursued a career in law, eventually becoming a highly regarded justice of the United States Supreme Court. The relationship between the two was complex; the younger Holmes noted that his father initially discouraged him from entering the legal profession, and there was reportedly little emotional affinity between them.12