(a.) Old; having lived long; having lived almost to or beyond the usual time allotted to that species of being; as, an aged man; an aged oak.
(a.) Belonging to old age.
(a.) Having a certain age; at the age of; having lived; as, a man aged forty years.
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.
Ripe
Definition:
(n.) The bank of a river.
(superl.) Ready for reaping or gathering; having attained perfection; mature; -- said of fruits, seeds, etc.; as, ripe grain.
(superl.) Advanced to the state of fitness for use; mellow; as, ripe cheese; ripe wine.
(superl.) Having attained its full development; mature; perfected; consummate.
(superl.) Maturated or suppurated; ready to discharge; -- said of sores, tumors, etc.
(superl.) Ready for action or effect; prepared.
(superl.) Like ripened fruit in ruddiness and plumpness.
(superl.) Intoxicated.
(v. i.) To ripen; to grow ripe.
(v. t.) To mature; to ripen.
Example Sentences:
(1) 1200 examinations of sonographical demonstrable placental ripeness were done in 552 pregnant women.
(2) I found their remarks a little ripe, if mostly well argued, although Nicholson's characterisation of the characters' default mindset as "Brown people bad, American people good" rather misses the obvious retort: "They wanna kill me, I wanna live."
(3) President Hassan Rouhani , who is visiting New York to speak at the UN general assembly next week, said at a meeting with journalists and media executives on Friday that “conditions were ripe” for his administration to start implementing the agreement, struck in Vienna in July, by the end of the year.
(4) The amount of banana starch not hydrolyzed and absorbed from the human small intestine and therefore passing into the colon may be up to 8 times more than the NSP present in this food and depends on the state of ripeness when the fruit is eaten.
(5) 75 Patients were treated with Prostaglandin-F2 alpha-gel intracervical to ripe the cervix prior to first trimester abortion.
(6) These demographic realities define a policy issue ripe for study.
(7) Her main project is new girl Tai (the late Brittany Murphy) who arrives at school as a clumsy, unconfident "ugly duckling" ripe for making over – allowing the film to indulge in that wonderful 80s teen movie trope: the dressing up montage.
(8) It’s when we have untrusted heads of these old institutions that everything seems ripe for revolution – if someone has the guts and ingenuity to really go for it.
(9) I gaze at it across the street and, as if by magic, I ache with longing, just as I used to in the days when a trip here was the most enjoyable thing I could possibly imagine: when books were all I wanted, when I thought of them as pieces of ripe fruit, waiting to be peeled and devoured.
(10) Some on the left who want Brexit say that the time is not yet ripe.
(11) We think that, after a rather premature condemnation, the time is ripe for a reevaluation and a reevaluation of the ureterosigmoidostomy.
(12) The oogonia pass through seven maturation stages to form the ripe ova.
(13) Total lipid constituted 15% of the dry wt of ripe eggs, 70% of the total lipid being polar lipid with phosphatidylcholine (PC) accounting for almost 90% of the polar lipid.
(14) A child growing up in America witnesses 16,000 murders and 200,000 acts of violence by the time he or she reaches the ripe old age of 18.
(15) Lamicel produced a cervical dilatation and ripeness equal to the syntetic tent without MgSO4.
(16) "The issue is ripe in our country, given the experiences that we know of elsewhere," he added.
(17) There's only so much traipsing sodden hills one person can do; once your Pringles supply from the nearest point of civilisation has been depleted, and anyone with bones ripe for jumping carries the risk of a shared grandparent, it's a wonder more people don't while away the long nights with a spot of leisurely murder.
(18) I think the time is ripe to push these issues into London councils and the London Assembly .
(19) Music in hospitals, he argues, is an area ripe for further exploration.
(20) The relationship between disability in activities of daily living and age-related impairment of physical performance is especially ripe for study.