(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.
Epoch
Definition:
(n.) A fixed point of time, established in history by the occurrence of some grand or remarkable event; a point of time marked by an event of great subsequent influence; as, the epoch of the creation; the birth of Christ was the epoch which gave rise to the Christian era.
(n.) A period of time, longer or shorter, remarkable for events of great subsequent influence; a memorable period; as, the epoch of maritime discovery, or of the Reformation.
(n.) A division of time characterized by the prevalence of similar conditions of the earth; commonly a minor division or part of a period.
(n.) The date at which a planet or comet has a longitude or position.
(n.) An arbitrary fixed date, for which the elements used in computing the place of a planet, or other heavenly body, at any other date, are given; as, the epoch of Mars; lunar elements for the epoch March 1st, 1860.
Example Sentences:
(1) The adaptive filter processor was tested for retrospective identification of artifacts in 20 male volunteers who performed the following specific movements between epochs of quiet, supine breathing: raising arms and legs (slowly, quickly, once, and several times), sitting up, breathing deeply and rapidly, and rolling from a supine to a lateral decubitus position.
(2) The results indicate that the different EEG frequency bands during a given EEG epoch are generated by neural populations in different brain locations.
(3) The majority of classes have over 200 discrete epochs.
(4) By means of the adaptive estimation of the variance of respiratory movements, an amplitude-time window is calculated to choose between epochs with breaths and apnoea.
(5) Speaking in Athens last November, the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben discussed an epochal transformation in the idea of government, "whereby the traditional hierarchical relation between causes and effects is inverted, so that, instead of governing the causes – a difficult and expensive undertaking – governments simply try to govern the effects".
(6) The effect was chiefly on the frequency of state changes and less on epoch durations.
(7) The author rejects the proposition, encountered in some parts of the psychoanalytic and social-science literature, that certain types of disturbances correspond to certain epochs or forms of society.
(8) In overt schizophrenics, late epoch stability was low in all EPs.
(9) EPOCH was administered intravenously once a week with the dosage of 3,000-9,000 IU for 8 weeks.
(10) The prolonged neurophysiological effects of stimulation may allow the use of maximum effective intervals between optimal epochs of stimulation so that any cerebellar damage can be minimized.
(11) Median heart and respiratory rate, respiratory variability, and median extent of three types of heart rate variation were determined for each epoch, and the minute-by-minute correlations between seven pairs of parameters were determined for quiet sleep, rapid eye movement sleep, and waking in each recording.
(12) The short-term variability of the selected EEG measures and their suitability as a sample estimate were assessed by computing the coefficient of variation from all selected epochs of a given subject at baseline.
(13) But what use are such skills when addressing the enormity of this new epoch?
(14) It is argued that, during the first two and last periods, all quantities of genetic interest, such as the gametic frequencies, the mean fitness, the linkage disequilibrium, and the linkage disequilibrium ratio, Z, change with time in essentially the same manner, characteristic of the particular epoch concerned and determined in this paper, and therefore, when quasilinkage equilibrium occurs, it is a transitional phenomenon.
(15) Evidence for the hypothesis was found only during the EEG-epoch one second before the answer.
(16) The automatic analysis scored fewer epochs as stages wake, rapid eye movement (REM), and 2 and more as stages 1, 3, and 4.
(17) Finally, an epoch by epoch analysis is described, with the aim of achieving a more detailed evaluation of the intergroup variability.
(18) In the first set of experiments (n = 8), placebo or CS (30 mg) was given, followed by four 15-min epochs of alveolar hypoxia (8% O2, 5% CO2, 87% N2) each separated by 30 min of alveolar normoxia (21% O2).
(19) Two averaging strategies were assessed: (1) averaging the entire pre- and poststimulus epoch point for point across individuals and (2) averaging the voltage of Pa at the latency of Pa for each individual.
(20) Finally, it is demonstrated that the probability of a false-positive decision may increase by an order of magnitude if the Rayleigh test is not performed once, for a fixed number of epochs specified in advance, but is carried out repeatedly during an ongoing experiment until either one of the tests indicates the presence of an evoked response or the upper limit for the number of epochs is exceeded.