(n.) Shortness of duration; briefness of time; as, the brevity of human life.
(n.) Contraction into few words; conciseness.
Example Sentences:
(1) The other example is of a woman who had a child who died at the age of 10 and expressed no regrets, but when questioned about whether she would have continued a pregnancy knowingly aware the baby would die in 10 years, the woman replied that she could not imagine how anyone could be so strong as to bear a child knowing the brevity of its life.
(2) The twitch duration of the mesothoracic TCX1 acquires its adult brevity gradually over the first 5 days of adult life.
(3) Merits of this procedure include operative simplicity and brevity, and high rate of cure.
(4) And when people read these stories – so admirable in their brevity, so controlled in their emotion, so artful in their artlessness; their use, for example, of the term NAME REDACTED instead of a character’s actual name to better show what is happening to a stranger is not an individual act, but a universal crime.” In his speech, titled Does Writing Matter?
(5) There is a very important dwarfism with extreme micromely, macrocephalia and brevity of chest.
(6) Adenosine has several advantages over verapamil, including rapid onset, brevity of side effects, theoretical safety, and probable lack of placental transfer.
(7) Getting access to the internet is a really big deal.” Rather than looking through his media library, though, there's a better explanation for where the Facebook founder is heading: he will be aware of the brevity of the period in the limelight most tech CEOs enjoy, so at 30 he's entitled to have a mid-life crisis.
(8) Circadian and about 12-h (circasemidian) components are modulated by an approximately 84-h (circasemiseptan) component, which cannot be separated from trends in view of the brevity of the series.
(9) This assay may prove useful for the dissection of allograft rejection and tumor resistance due to its brevity, reflection of T-cell immunity, and sensitivity to host humoral factors.
(10) The comparison shows that the two groups lie on the same curve of ventricular function and that subjects with IHSS operate low down owing to the brevity of their sarcomeres.
(11) It's not an objection to brevity or humour, and no sensible person really sees a new range of possible emoji as a sign of the eschaton.
(12) This case is unusual in the brevity of steroid treatment prior to onset of the myelopathy, as well as the relatively small dose.
(13) Pretreatment with Kö 1173, however, did not influence the toxicity of ouabain infusion, implying great brevity of action.4.
(14) Countering the scepticism of those who suggest the universal Church's official language might not be an obvious tool for spontaneous exchange and debate, Manlio Simonetti, a professor in Christian history, told L'Osservatore Romano: "Latin … is very well suited to the brevity necessary on new social networks, even more so than English."
(15) Good tools exist that meet requirements such as brevity, validity, reliability, ease of administration, and ease of scoring, which make them potentially suitable for use in clinical practice.
(16) Despite the brevity of follow-up in some patients, many patients, including those with no definable cause, had multiple seizures prior to the administration of anticonvulsants.
(17) The chief advantages of the endoscopic approach are its extreme brevity of two to five minutes, lack of morbidity, and lack of threat to the recurrent laryngeal nerve.
(18) For the sake of brevity only the FEV1 values are shown in the figures since the other parameters all revealed a similar pattern.
(19) This article presents a survey of clinical research focused on these questions which, for the sake of brevity, is confined to DA metabolism.
(20) The List of Threatening Experiences (LTE) of Brugha et al., by virtue of its brevity, overcomes difficulties of clinical application.
Longevity
Definition:
(n.) Long duration of life; length of life.
Example Sentences:
(1) And perhaps it’s this longevity that accounts for her popularity: a single tweet from Williams (who has 750,000 followers) about the series will prompt a Game Of Thrones news story.
(2) A theory of selection at implantation is developed and generalized which leads to a new approach of longevity.
(3) Defenders of Boeheim would point out that this is partly a result of his longevity.
(4) There are no data to suggest that exercise training alters the incidence of infection or rejection or improves longevity or return to pre-illness lifestyle.
(5) Longevity analysis demonstrated elongation of life expectancy for kindred members, and there was an apparent rarity of premature cardiac events.
(6) The salmon allele in G. m. morsitans is pleiotropic and profoundly affects many aspects of fly biology including longevity, reproductive capacity, vision, vectorial capacity and duration of flight, but not circadian rhythms.
(7) Susannah Mushatt Jones, the American who is the only other member of the 116 club, also attributes her longevity to many decades of living on her own, having been married for only five years between 1928-33.
(8) According to the author's hypothesis, the human population consists of the two subpopulations which differ by the constitutional type of hormonal regulation and reproduction potential; the constitutional type of hormonal regulation exerts a considerable effect of the aging rate, morbidity, and longevity.
(9) A mathematical formula for normalization combined with the Weibull analysis also is proposed that could provide CL50 values for the clinical longevity of adhesive restorations.
(10) Tumor derived microvessel endothelium had decreased longevity in culture when compared to normal microvessel endothelium.
(11) Long-term in vitro human hematopoietic (Dexter) cultures are limited both in their longevity (8-12 weeks) and in their cell production over time.
(12) He said his longevity in the face of multiple drug abuse over decades was just luck, and advised others not to follow his lead.
(13) For new housing provision from now on, we need to aim at longevity as a key element of genuine sustainability.
(14) The reduction in the rate of aseptic loosening of the socket in our series, compared with the higher rates reported in similar long-term studies in which other acetabular components were used, supports the conclusion that there is enhanced longevity of acetabular fixation when a metal-backed acetabular component is used in cemented total hip arthroplasty.
(15) Onset of microscopically observed renal, vascular, myocardial and skeletal muscle lesions, as well as mammary fibroadenoma in females, was delayed and resulted in greater longevity.
(16) The effects of the growth factors were transient and the longevity of hematopoiesis in the cultures was not altered, suggesting that treatment with IL-3, GM-CSF, or G-CSF had not compromised the ability of primitive cells to give rise to mature cells.
(17) Good objective health, high scores on certain intelligence and memory tests seem to be good predictors for longevity, good subjective health more or less.
(18) Moderate rather than high dietary consumption of polyunsaturated fat seems to be favorable to metabolic processes contributing to longevity.
(19) The energy restriction regimen employed inhibited the development of cancer and greatly extended longevity in both these mouse strains.
(20) In an aging society, however, active life expectancy and maintenance of independence may be as important as effects of regular exercise on longevity.