What's the difference between eighty and octogenarian?

Eighty


Definition:

  • (a.) Eight times ten; fourscore.
  • (n.) The sum of eight times ten; eighty units or objects.
  • (n.) A symbol representing eighty units, or ten eight times repeated, as 80 or lxxx.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Eighty-two per cent of patients with falciparum malaria had recently returned from Africa whereas 82% with vivax malaria had visited Asia.
  • (2) Eighty-four paraplegic patients whose injury level was T2 or below and who were at least one year from spinal cord injury were screened for upper extremity complaints.
  • (3) Eighty-five per cent of the patients had been on beta-blocker treatment for more than 1 year.
  • (4) Eighty-eight patients (97%) had a stable fixation and 77 (85%) had resumed preoperative activity or were working but with a residual deficit.
  • (5) Eighty interposition mesocaval shunts, using a knitted Dacron large diameter prosthesis, have been performed during the past five and one-half years.
  • (6) Eighty micrograms of the topically active parasympatholytic drug ipratropium were applied intranasally four times daily in 20 adults with perennial rhinitis and severe watery rhinorrhoea in a double-blind controlled cross-over trial.
  • (7) Eighty percent of subjects with significant asymmetry of muscle action had recent LBP history.
  • (8) Eighty four colorectal cancer patients who underwent presumably curative surgery were considered as candidates for control recurrence study.
  • (9) Eighty people, including the outspoken journalist Pravit Rojanaphruk from the Nation newspaper and the former education minister Chaturon Chaisaeng, who was publicly arrested on Tuesday, remain in detention.
  • (10) Eighty-five per cent of newly appointed judges in France are women because the men stay away.
  • (11) Eighty bovine fetuses with presumed protozoal infections from a previous 2-year retrospective study were examined by immunohistochemistry using antisera against Neospora caninum.
  • (12) Eighty percent of the cows were infused with nine different antibiotic preparations separately at drying off, and 20% served as controls.
  • (13) Eighty-eight patients with 188 sacral fractures were examined with computed tomography (CT) and conventional radiography.
  • (14) Eighty adults between the ages of 20 and 78 described three pictures.
  • (15) Eighty-six hearing-impaired ears of 44 subjects with sensorineural hearing loss formed the patient group.
  • (16) Eighty-five percent of the exposed animals survived in room air.
  • (17) Eighty-eight percent of subjects receiving CVD 103-HgR mounted a significant (greater than fourfold) rise in Inaba vibriocidal titre while 68% did so for the heterologous Ogawa serotype.
  • (18) Eighty-six adults serially recalled lists of visually presented consonant letters similar in auditory or visual features or dissimilar in both feature sets.
  • (19) Eighty-seven patients (54.7%) who presented ocular lesions suggestive of sarcoidosis as an initial manifestation were diagnosed after a systemic survey.
  • (20) Eighty-one patients (80%) had a good or excellent result, 15 patients (14%) were rated fair, and 6 patients (6%) were rated poor.

Octogenarian


Definition:

  • (n.) A person eighty years, or more, of age.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Abdominal aneurysm repair in octogenarians is controversial.
  • (2) Modi had to isolate and sideline the BJP's octogenarian elder statesman, LK Advani , before he could become its frontrunner.
  • (3) Thus, resection of a nonruptured AAA in 63 octogenarians was carried out with an overall mortality of 4.7%.
  • (4) She rented a flat to be near his grave at Vienne, near Lyons, and was befriended by a neighbour, the octogenarian Baron Philippe de Rothschild, who had run a theatre in his youth.
  • (5) The octogenarian head of state was due to meet the leaders of smaller parties, including the neo-fascist Chrysi Avgi, later on Sunday night.
  • (6) The increasing safety of cardiac surgery has led to the frequent referral of octogenarians for operation.
  • (7) Octogenarians underwent revascularization procedures with relatively low morbidity and mortality.
  • (8) "How do you convince the world that you are open for business while brandishing nuclear weapons at the world's largest economy and kidnapping an octogenarian?"
  • (9) And then there's her heroically blunt songs, such as You're Gonna Die Soon , performed to a group of octogenarians.
  • (10) Thus, short- and long-term outcomes after aortic valve replacement for aortic stenosis in otherwise healthy octogenarians is generally favorable, even in the presence of preoperative left ventricular systolic dysfunction.
  • (11) The relative infrequency of coronary surgery over the age of 80 years suggests that there is already strong selection against surgery in octogenarians.
  • (12) One elderly man, an octogenarian who had nowhere else to go, is being put up in the local Home Depot store.
  • (13) Riva is not being curmudgeonly (well, not much), but it is easy to forget that she is not playing at being an octogenarian.
  • (14) The mnestic and naming performance of the octogenarians did not differ between the high- and low-content-areas.
  • (15) Elective and emergency aortic aneurysm surgery can be performed with reasonable survival and a good quality of life, and therefore cannot be denied to octogenarians on the basis of age alone.
  • (16) Melbourne Victory have been stable for several years now, while Sydney FC (or Sydney City as my octogenarian father inadvertently calls them, albeit without any ironic intent), have been in a similar position for the past couple of seasons.
  • (17) The octogenarian communist revolutionary fell for the young new president and became "obsessed", according to confidential US diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks.
  • (18) It showed that upper GIE in octogenarians is a safe and easy as in other age groups, and provides more useful information.
  • (19) In women, the level of HDL-C and apo A-I was similar in premenopausal and octogenarian subjects but higher in postmenopausal women than in octogenarians, while HDL2-C and apo A-II were similar in the three groups.
  • (20) We present three patients with successful surgical repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms with signs of imminent rupture in octogenarians.

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