(n.) The whole duration of a being, whether animal, vegetable, or other kind; lifetime.
(n.) That part of the duration of a being or a thing which is between its beginning and any given time; as, what is the present age of a man, or of the earth?
(n.) The latter part of life; an advanced period of life; seniority; state of being old.
(n.) One of the stages of life; as, the age of infancy, of youth, etc.
(n.) Mature age; especially, the time of life at which one attains full personal rights and capacities; as, to come of age; he (or she) is of age.
(n.) The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested; as, the age of consent; the age of discretion.
(n.) A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others; as, the golden age, the age of Pericles.
(n.) A great period in the history of the Earth.
(n.) A century; the period of one hundred years.
(n.) The people who live at a particular period; hence, a generation.
(n.) A long time.
(v. i.) To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age; as, he grew fat as he aged.
(v. t.) To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to; as, grief ages us.
Example Sentences:
(1) The percentage of people with less than 10 TU titers is under 5% after the age of 5 years up to 15 years; from 15 to 60 years there are no subjects with undetectable ASO titer and after this age the percentage is still under 5%.
(2) Thirty-two patients (10 male, 22 female; age 37-82 years) undergoing maintenance haemodialysis or haemofiltration were studied by means of Holter device capable of simultaneously analysing rhythm and ST-changes in three leads.
(3) Age difference did not affect the mean dose-effect response.
(4) The prenatal risk determined by smoking pregnant woman was studied by a fetal electrocardiogram at different gestational ages.
(5) With aging, the blood vessel wall becomes hyperreactive--presumably because of an augmented vasoconstrictor and a reduced vasodilator responsiveness.
(6) Life expectancy and the infant mortality rate are considered more useful from an operational perspective and for comparisons than is the crude death rate because they are not influenced by age structure.
(7) Children of smoking mothers had an 18.0 per cent cumulative incidence of post-infancy wheezing through 10 years of age, compared with 16.2 per cent among children of nonsmoking mothers (risk ratio 1.11, 95% CI: 1.02, 1.21).
(8) These results suggest that the pelvic floor is affected by progressive denervation but descent during straining tends to decrease with advancing age.
(9) Comparison with 194 age and sex matched subjects, without STD, were chosen as controls.
(10) However, there was no correlation between the length of time PN was administered to onset of cholestasis and the gestational age or birth weight of the infants.
(11) This study compared the non-invasive vascular profiles, coagulation tests, and rheological profiles of 46 consecutive cases of low-tension glaucoma with 69 similarly unselected cases of high-tension glaucoma and 47 age-matched controls.
(12) Male sex, age under 19 or over 45, few social supports, and a history of previous suicide attempts are all factors associated with increased suicide rates.
(13) The origins of aging of higher forms of life, particularly humans, is presented as the consequence of an evolved balance between 4 specific kinds of dysfunction-producing events and 4 kinds of evolved counteracting effects in long-lived forms.
(14) Even though attempts to generalize the data from childbearing women to women of childbearing age have an inherent conservative bias, the results of our study suggest that 988 women (95% CI 713 to 1336) aged 15 to 44 years in Quebec had HIV infection in 1989.
(15) In kidney, both age groups responded with an increase in activity.
(16) No associations were found between sex, body-weight, smoking habits, age, urine volume or urine pH and the O-demethylation of codeine.
(17) It was the purpose of the present study to describe the normal pattern of the growth sites of the nasal septum according to age and sex by histological and microradiographical examination of human autopsy material.
(18) There were 12 males, 6 females, with mean age of 55.1 yrs (range 39-77 yrs).
(19) A remarkable deterioration of prognosis with increasing age rises the question whether treatment with cytotoxic drugs should be tried in patients more than 60 years old.
(20) The main result of the correspondence analysis is a geometric map of this relationship showing how the relative frequencies of headache types change with age.
Eld
Definition:
(a.) Old.
(n.) Age; esp., old age.
(n.) Old times; former days; antiquity.
(v. i.) To age; to grow old.
(v. t.) To make old or ancient.
Example Sentences:
(1) To examine the role of base composition and base sequence in the binding of these drugs to DNA, ELD experiments were carried out with natural DNAs of widely differing base composition as well as with polynucleotides containing defined alternating and non-alternating repeating sequences, poly(dA).poly(dT), poly(dA-dT).poly(dA-dT),poly(dG).poly(dC) and poly(dG-dC).poly(dG-dC).
(2) It is argued that ELD has an impairment to the visuo-spatial component of working memory (Baddeley, 1986) in the absence of any phonological loop deficit.
(3) Finally, FLD and ELD probably "see" different features of the chromatin structure.
(4) The drug-DNA interaction has been investigated by means of electric linear dichroism (ELD) spectroscopy and DNase I footprinting.
(5) This effect was concentration dependent in the presence of cultured Ehrlich-Lettre hyperdiploid (ELD) ascites cells; however, media from ELD cell cultures or ELD cell sonicates resulted in aggregates of greater diameter and lower ratios of single cells to aggregates.
(6) The fall in serum osteocalcin in ELD-fed rats is associated with a fall in femur ash weight and bone strength.
(7) These findings indicate that the binding to mitochondria stabilizes the hexokinases of ELD cells, though the stability is different by nature between hexokinases I and II.
(8) Thereafter, only GPho activity in the ELD continues to slowly increase.
(9) Türkiye 2023 yılına kadar güneşten elde edilecek elektriği sadece %5 olarak hedeflemektedir.
(10) In recent years, attention has focused on the role of the endolymphatic sac (ELS) and the endolymphatic duct (ELD) in the pathogenesis of endolymphatic hydrops (ELH).
(11) Despite poor performance on tasks such as the Brooks Matrix and the Corsi Blocks, ELD is good at the immediate serial recall of letters even when presentation modality is visual and shows effects of phonological similarity and articulatory suppression.
(12) With increasing electrolyte content, both ELD and FLD decreased drastically in amplitude, but in contrast to the ELD which remains negative in an intermediate range of low ionic strength (0.1-0.5 mM Mg2+) the FLD changes sign and becomes positive.
(13) A generalized method is presented for accounting for extra lethal damage (ELD) arising from such residual SLD for hyperfractionation and continuous irradiation schemes.
(14) In a longer experiment that spanned 4 weeks, the ELD rats were given 6% ethanol on day 4, increased stepwise to 8% by day 9, and then maintained at 8% until day 28, when the experiment was terminated.
(15) A group of ELD children, averaging 27 months of age, was contrasted with a group of normally developing children, matched for age, sex, and receptive language ability.
(16) Further, family history was not predictive of later language development in ELD children.
(17) Children aged 8-12 years also showed parallel excretion of sodium and ELDS, even if natriuresis was induced in recumbent position and antinatriuresis in upright position.
(18) Several possibilities are considered: ELD signals are more influenced than FLD by the presence of short chromatin chains, nucleosomes and small pieces of naked DNA, while FLD is more susceptible to the presence of large, easily orientable, scattering aggregates.
(19) The prolongation was greater following novel sounds in the attended ear, particularly in the ELD group.
(20) Sex did not influence very significantly the yield of colonies from ELD cells; in the case of MA cells the direction of sex differences depended on age.