(n.) The science which treats of measuring time by regular divisions or periods, and which assigns to events or transactions their proper dates.
Example Sentences:
(1) Under these conditions the meiotic prophase takes place and proceeds to the dictyate phase, obeying a somewhat delayed chronology in comparison with controls in vivo.
(2) In contrast, idiopathic GH deficient girls have an onset of puberty and PHV nearer to a normal chronological age and at an early bone age.
(3) There was no correlation between serum LH and chronological or bone age in this age group, which suggests that the correlation found is not due to age-related parallel phenomena.
(4) We report the treatment of 44 boys with constitutional delay of growth and puberty (CDGP) at a mean chronological age of 14.3 years (range, 12.4-17.1) and bone age of 12.1 years (range, 9.1-15.0).
(5) Although chronologic age may not be a good predictor of pregnancy outcome, adolescents remain a high-risk group due to factors which are more common among them such as biologic immaturity, inadequate prenatal care, poverty, minority status, and low prepregnancy weight, and because factors associated with an early adolescent pregnancy, such as low gynecologic age, may continue to influence the outcome of subsequent pregnancies.
(6) The difference in the timing of the change in FSH and LH concentrations was related not only to chronological age but also to the number of years before the menopause.
(7) Weighed amounts of lyophilized venom from each snake were compared chronologically for variation in isoelectric focusing patterns, using natural and immobilized gradients.
(8) It’s around this point in the film’s chronology that Rodman makes his now infamous appearance on CNN , where he rejected calls to assist in the release of American prisoner Kenneth Bae and shouted at interviewer Chris Cuomo.
(9) However, a review of the literature suggests that chronological age alone does not account for increased toxicity in the elderly.
(10) A chronology of the disaster, involving two helicopter crashes which left 11 dead, is presented.
(11) A chronological subdivision of the swallowing act is needed for a step-by-step analysis.
(12) Sound velocities, breaking strengths calculated from velocities adjusted for estimated soft tissue cover, measured bone mediolateral diameters and cannon diameters minus estimated soft tissue increased as quadratic functions of chronologic age (r greater than .840; P less than .0001).
(13) Chronological observation also showed the change of SLex expression according to the histological change.
(14) Further considerations concern the adaptation of measurements at ad hoc times to values for full, half, and quarterly years of chronological age.
(15) 5(1)-Nucleotidase was found to decrease with increase in the chronological age of the chicks.
(16) It was also a better predictor of viability than chronological age.
(17) A total of 48 children were tested, with eight selected from each chronological age group from four through nine years.
(18) At a time when the intrauterine diagnosis of hydrocephalus is commonplace and pioneering efforts of antenatal therapy are evolving, review of the chronology of treatment of this disorder becomes pertinent.
(19) The chronologic and anatomic expressions of Thy-1 are compatible with a role of Thy-1 in the generation and maintenance of synapses.
(20) His instinct that there was something there in the association beyond simple chronology is rewarded in the details.
Horology
Definition:
(n.) The science of measuring time, or the principles and art of constructing instruments for measuring and indicating portions of time, as clocks, watches, dials, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Broadly speaking, the further north you go, the nastier the predominant reading matter borrowed, a pattern that might invite sociological, meteorological and even horological (fewer winter daylight hours) explanations.