What's the difference between centenarian and decade?

Centenarian


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or relating to a hundred years.
  • (n.) A person a hundred years old.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The centenarian has already been tested by life and found exceptionally fit.
  • (2) The frequencies of 80 HLA antigen phenotypes in 82 centenarians and 20 nonagenarians in Okinawa, Japan, were compared with those in other healthy adults in various age-brackets.
  • (3) By clinical observations of 115 centenarians and 742 nonagenarians, the actual state of mental aging of the very old Japanese and some factors relating to it are shown in this paper.
  • (4) We compared the clinical laboratory findings of the centenarians with that of 60-80 year olds.
  • (5) We think centenarians do not present a special case and our clinical observations suggest a continuous process of aging.
  • (6) Cytofluorimetric analysis of peripheral blood lymphocytes showed a striking age-dependent decrease in total and CD5+B cells (without changes in their ratio), which reached its nadir in centenarians.
  • (7) The centenarian, one of about 24 Japanese alive who have passed the 110-year milestone, claims she has never been ill, and quickly recovered after breaking her leg in a fall at the age of 102.
  • (8) Vital statistics data previously published by the Registrar General of England and Wales have been separated into male and female deaths in 1960-69 aged 100, 1961-70 aged 101, 1962-71 aged 102 etc., to represent cohorts of 292 male and 1463 female centenarians born in 1859-1869.
  • (9) Like other super-centenarians (110 or older), the daughter of sharecroppers and granddaughter of slaves had her own explanation of her longevity – more than 10 hours of sleep a night and lifelong abstinence from alcohol and cigarettes.
  • (10) Results revealed differences in personality: centenarians scored higher on dominance, suspiciousness, and imagination.
  • (11) The urogenital and digestive systems in 23 centenarians (7 males and 16 females) were examined pathologically.
  • (12) Though age-related changes were present in the centenarians, these age-related biological changes did not hinder them from reaching very old age.
  • (13) By contrast, prevalence of thyroid autoantibodies in centenarians was not significantly different from that in controls aged less than 50.
  • (14) Most of these centenarians died of bronchopneumonia or myocardial fibrosis.
  • (15) Compared to the younger cohorts, centenarians consumed breakfast more regularly, avoided weight loss diets and large fluctuations in body weight, consumed slightly more vegetables, and relied on their doctor and family more than on the news media for nutrition information.
  • (16) But studies and testimony from centenarians suggest that lasting friendships, community ties, as well as generous pensions and decent healthcare, can be as important as eating well, avoiding tobacco and drinking in moderation.
  • (17) Demographic data of 218 centenarians in Hungary were collected, and 123 were examined by a medical team.
  • (18) The concentration of vitamin E (alpha-tocopherol) was measured in samples of cortex from patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD), fetuses with Down's syndrome (DS), and also in a group of centenarians.
  • (19) There were nearly 59,000 centenarians in Japan in September last year, government figures show – which means 46 out of every 100,000 people is 100 or over.
  • (20) But does this tally with the advice of other centenarians?

Decade


Definition:

  • (n.) A group or division of ten; esp., a period of ten years; a decennium; as, a decade of years or days; a decade of soldiers; the second decade of Livy.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Some commentators have described his ship, now facing more delays after a decade in development, as little more than a Heath Robinson machine.
  • (2) Peripheral vascular surgery has become an increasingly common mode of treatment in non-university, community hospitals in Sweden during the last decade.
  • (3) Handing Greater Manchester’s £6bn health and social care budget over to the city’s combined authority is the most exciting experiment in local government and the health service in decades – but the risks are huge.
  • (4) Over the past decade the use of monoclonal antibodies has greatly advanced our knowledge of the biological properties and heterogeneity that exist within human tumours, and in particular in lung cancer.
  • (5) A review is presented concerning the development of new neuroimaging techniques in the last decade which have improved the diagnostic exploration of patients with spinal cord injuries, including studies of possible sequelae.
  • (6) Environment groups Environment groups that have strongly backed low-carbon power have barely wavered in their opposition to nuclear in the last decade, although their arguments now are now much about the cost than the danger it might pose.
  • (7) Keep it in the ground campaign Though they draw on completely different archives, leaked documents, and interviews with ex-employees, they reach the same damning conclusion: Exxon knew all that there was to know about climate change decades ago, and instead of alerting the rest of us denied the science and obstructed the politics of global warming.
  • (8) Significant changes have occurred within the profession of pharmacy in the past few decades which have led to loss of function, social power and status.
  • (9) If women psychiatrists are to fill some of the positions in Departments of Psychiatry, which will fall vacant over the next decade, much more attention must be paid to eliminating or diminishing the multiple obstacles for women who chose a career in academic psychiatry.
  • (10) Gliomas of the pregeniculate anterior visual pathways comprise about 5% of all intracranial tumors that occur in the first decade of life.
  • (11) Over the past decade, the quinolone antimicrobial class has enjoyed a renaissance with the emergence of the fluoroquinolone subclass.
  • (12) "There is sufficient evidence... of past surface temperatures to say with a high level of confidence that the last few decades of the 20th century were warmer than any comparable period in the last 400 years.
  • (13) Plays like The Workhouse Donkey (1963) and Armstrong's Last Goodnight (1964) were staged in major theatres, but as the decade progressed so his identification with the increasingly radical climate of the times began to lead away from the mainstream theatre.
  • (14) Although the incidence of acute rheumatic fever has declined in the last decades, a few outbreaks have recently been reported.
  • (15) We report on the clinical studies of bladder tumours carried out at the centre for oncology in the Aarhus area and describe the experience and results of the past three decades.
  • (16) But the condition of edifices such as B30 and B38 - and all the other "legacy" structures built at Sellafield decades ago - suggest Britain might end up paying a heavy price for this new commitment to nuclear energy.
  • (17) During the last decade, clinical studies with immunotherapy in recurrent gliomas have been added to the therapeutic regimens.
  • (18) Grace has no capacity so she will be very mechanised.” This week Robert Mugabe described Mujuru, his vice-president of a decade, as too simplistic .
  • (19) The thickness of the media in the groups behaves like the number of nuclei: in hypertension with the highest values, there is no significant decrease as far as the 8th cross-section, while in the coronary sclerosis and third decade groups the values come closer together after the 6th cross-section.
  • (20) But for decades now there has been a systematic undermining of it [the NHS’s] core values.