What's the difference between age and necrobiosis?

Age


Definition:

  • (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.

Necrobiosis


Definition:

  • (n.) The death of a part by molecular disintegration and without loss of continuity, as in the processes of degeneration and atrophy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Towards the end of the observation period erosions of cartilage, pannus formation and periarticular foci of purulent necrobiosis were found.
  • (2) The identity between necrobiosis lipoidica with other chronic granulomatous diseases and the possible treatment of this benign but long-term process is briefly discussed.
  • (3) RN tended to show homogeneous, eosinophilic necrobiosis, giant cells within palisaded foci, and significant stromal fibrosis; while lesions of SGA showed pale, edematous necrobiosis, an absence of giant cells, and lesser degrees of fibrosis.
  • (4) In one out of the three dogs with combined operation, scattered foci of necrobiotic sinus node cells and necrobiosis of the medial smooth muscle cells in sinus node arteries were also observed.
  • (5) These findings support a vascular origin of necrobiosis lipoidica, involving reduced vascular perfusion combined with diffusion block.
  • (6) However, it has not been associated previously with necrobiosis lipoidica diabeticorum (NBL), a rare skin manifestation of diabetes mellitus.
  • (7) Statistically significant hypoxia was found in the area of necrobiosis lipoidica, which was even more pronounced in the inflamed border.
  • (8) Cortisone-herapin and cortisone-maltose tetrapalmitate (MTP) treatments induced focal areas of tumor necrosis and necrobiosis, whereas cortisone alone caused necrobiosis.
  • (9) A diabetic patient is described presenting psoriasis, necrobiosis lipoidica diabeticorum, granuloma annulare, and vitiligo and with a history of recurrent erysipelas and mycotic infections.
  • (10) In patients with portal cirrhosis, sclerotic changes rather than necrobiosis was observed in the pancreas.
  • (11) A case of necrobiosis lipoidica diabeticorum (NLD) in a 12-year-old male patient is described.
  • (12) Finally, in six elliptical biopsies extending into clinically normal skin, we demonstrated that the inflammatory infiltrate of necrobiosis lipoidica diabeticorum extended from the lesion into apparently normal skin surrounding clinically active lesions.
  • (13) Our report describes a 52-year-old female patient with bilateral foci of necrobiosis lipoidica in pretibial scars.
  • (14) Results of an open trial of platelet inhibitor treatment for necrobiosis lipoidica diabeticorum suggest the possible importance of abnormal platelet function in this disease.
  • (15) Common features included extensive hyaline necrobiosis and foreign-body giant cells.
  • (16) We confirmed that cutaneous anesthesia is usually present in the necrobiosis lipoidica diabeticorum lesions.
  • (17) Liver function test showed signs of moderate necrobiosis with impaired biliary acid metabolism.
  • (18) The associations between the granulomatous disorders of the skin, especially necrobiosis lipoidica, sarcoidosis and granuloma annulare, are discussed.
  • (19) A statistically significantly higher number of these cells was found within the epidermis in necrobiosis lipoidica compared with granuloma annulare and normal skin.
  • (20) Tissue hypoxia and an infection, arising against this background, lead to the expansion of necrobiosis and to the occurrence of trophic ulcers.

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