(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.
Eldest
Definition:
(a.) Oldest; longest in duration.
(a.) Born or living first, or before the others, as a son, daughter, brother, etc.; first in origin. See Elder.
Example Sentences:
(1) By statistical analysis, we showed that the B27 haplotype carried by the eldest member with AS in each family was more likely to be associated with disease.
(2) The eldest patient was 49 years old, but 75% of the patients were younger than 20 years.
(3) He said he had left Rakhine, in Burma, with his eldest son three months ago.
(4) Elisabeth Haukeland’s eldest son and daughter both survived the massacre, and they aren’t going back to Utøya.
(5) In the case of a family with two children where one parent has an income of £54,000, the total amount of child benefit is currently £1,752 a year (£20.30 a week for the eldest child, plus £13.40 a week for the other child).
(6) The analysis of the body mass among the eldest men and women, especially, (60-70 years) shows that those with lower body weight are more capable of working at the age of pension.
(7) Arturo was the eldest of five brothers running the trafficking ring which is thought to control a significant part of the cocaine and heroin smuggled into the US.
(8) Shackling and ‘a full strip search’ On the morning of 21 October 2013, LaTonia Wilson was pulling out of her mechanic’s garage with her husband, Atheris Mann; her eldest son, Jessie Patrick; and their two-year-old son Marquise.
(9) The eldest of three siblings whose father worked for the Inland Revenue, James left school at 16 to work in a tax office herself, and in 1941 married Ernest White, of the Royal Army Medical Corps.
(10) We report the 113th case in the eldest known patient at the time of diagnosis.
(11) Bianca, Ms Rinehart's eldest daughter, said her younger sister Hope Welker "was pretty much at her wit's end" and felt "kicked in the stomach" after the way Hancock treated her.
(12) The eldest was 25 years of age, the youngest was 3 years.
(13) Trump’s eldest daughter, heiress-apparent to her father’s real estate empire, said she had worked with him for more than a decade and seen him hire people from “all walks of life”.
(14) Just because you say something on Twitter, doesn’t make it so.” Trump has previously said that he would leave his business operations to his three eldest children, Donald Jr, Eric and Ivanka, though whether he plans to continue with that idea was not clear from his tweets on Wednesday.
(15) Today he mentors young people who grew up in a similar situation to him, including Mark Duggan’s eldest son, Kamani.
(16) Mandela's eldest granddaughter Ndileka Mandela was among family members who visited him in hospital on Monday.
(17) They seemed to be discussing whether or not we should set off, but the eldest, who operated the boat, gave the go-ahead.
(18) Murdoch, 84, who is currently chairman and CEO of the company, will become executive co-chairman alongside his eldest son Lachlan.
(19) Donald Trump Jr, Trump’s eldest child, has insisted that Trump’s holdings would go into a trust managed by him and his siblings Eric and Ivanka Trump.
(20) It computes the likelihood of a complex pedigree allowing for many non-standard features including multiple alleles (up to four per locus), multiple mates, more than one mating in the eldest generation, consanguinity, missing or partially tested persons, and different recombination fractions between males and females.