(a.) Born before another; prior in years; senior; earlier; older; as, his elder brother died in infancy; -- opposed to younger, and now commonly applied to a son, daughter, child, brother, etc.
(a.) One who is older; a superior in age; a senior.
(a.) An aged person; one who lived at an earlier period; a predecessor.
(a.) A person who, on account of his age, occupies the office of ruler or judge; hence, a person occupying any office appropriate to such as have the experience and dignity which age confers; as, the elders of Israel; the elders of the synagogue; the elders in the apostolic church.
(a.) A clergyman authorized to administer all the sacraments; as, a traveling elder.
(n.) A genus of shrubs (Sambucus) having broad umbels of white flowers, and small black or red berries.
Example Sentences:
(1) Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is also seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, recently proposed a bill that would ease the financial burden of prescription drugs on elderly Americans by allowing Medicare, the national social health insurance program, to negotiate with the pharmaceutical companies to keep prices down.
(2) Elderly women need to follow the same strategies as postmenopausal women with more emphasis on prevention of falls.
(3) The role of magnetic resonance imaging is also discussed, as is the pathophysiology, management, and prognosis in the elderly patient.
(4) Polygraphic recordings during sleep were performed on 18 elderly persons (age range: 64-100 years).
(5) Mitoses of nuclei of myocytes of the left ventricle of the heart observed in two elderly people who had died of extensive relapsing infarction are described.
(6) Furthermore, renal function in the elderly patient with CHF is markedly compromised.
(7) The experiences with short-time psychotherapies described here are encouraging and confirm results of other groups demonstrating the efficiency of psychotherapeutic interventions with the elderly.
(8) Since neutrophils are the first line of defense against infection the vulnerability to infection of the elderly may be due, at least in part, to age-related changes in neutrophils (PMNs).
(9) The authors recently observed 2 elderly female patients with ischemic pain of the upper extremity as the first manifestation of giant cell arteritis.
(10) The mean value of peak Vcf showed no significant difference among young and elderly groups except for the group in the 30's which showed significant (p less than 0.05) difference between other groups.
(11) We used results from the 1986 National Mortality Follow-back Survey to estimate proportions of elderly decedents who were "fully functional" or "severely restricted" in the last year of life.
(12) We evaluated the effect of glycated albumin on phenytoin protein binding in 36 elderly (age range 63-94 yrs) patients with type II diabetes mellitus (DM) under diet management.
(13) Radiation exposure resulted in further significant decrease of T-cell count (but not B cells) in the elderly.
(14) The total amount of variance explained in the frequency of utilization (47%) exceeded that explained by other studies of utilization of various health services by the elderly.
(15) We conclude that mortality rates in the elderly could be improved by encouraging elective surgery and avoiding diagnostic laparatomy in patients with incurable surgical disease.
(16) Forty five elderly patients undergoing total hip replacements were assessed one day before and two days after surgery in order to explore the relationship between pre-operative anxiety and post-operative delirium.
(17) Elderly humans also cannot maximally suppress ADH secretion when serum osmolality is reduced.
(18) The relationship between subjective state of health and 5-year survival in an elderly cohort was examined.
(19) The unique case of an elderly man presenting with right L2-3 radiculopathy is described.
(20) Non-inflammatory calcific disease of the mitral valve apparatus is a common finding in elderly patients.
Ender
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, makes an end of something; as, the ender of my life.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ender nails as well as three forms of interlocking nails, Brooker-Wills (B-W), Klenm-Schellman (K-S), and Grosse-Kempf (G-K), were implanted in cadaver femora.
(2) It constitutes an alternative to Ender nailing, screw-plate, and nail-plate.
(3) In basocervical and pertrochanteric fractures of younger patients a dynamic hip screw will be performed; in older patients we use elastic nails described by Simon-Weidner and Ender with good success.
(4) Between 1976 and 1987 at the Surgical Department of the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, 671 fractures of the trochanteric region of the femur were treated by Ender nailing.
(5) "The problem is that, in the US and UK, most people who want to sign up for Facebook have already done it," said new media specialist Ian Maude at Enders Analysis.
(6) By now, those described, not entirely accurately, as “pro-Russian separatists” largely comprise desperate bitter-enders, who increasingly fear – with justification – that Moscow has hung them out to dry.
(7) One of the big difficulties, Enders said, is where to house the unquantifiable liabilities arising out of the phone-hacking scandal that led to the abrupt closure of the News of the World last summer.
(8) The Ender method has advantages over existing operative methods, in that in our series the infection rate was zero and we found that the operation produced less shock.
(9) The other member was fixed with either Ender rods or a Zickel nail.
(10) The authors report the clinical and radiographic results obtained in the treatment of 138 patients with pertrochanteric fractures of the neck of the femur by Ender's elastic nail.
(11) Douglas McCabe, a media analyst at Enders Analysis, said traditional media companies that initially dismissed BuzzFeed as just "cats on skateboards" were already concerned about its ability to generate huge amounts of traffic and move in on the serious news agenda.
(12) Last month, two companies - Enders and PwC - both revised down growth figures for 2008 for online advertising .
(13) But the East Ender will not compete over the one lap in Daegu, while the runner-up – Shana Cox – only qualifies for a British passport from November of this year and so all three British places are up for grabs as the selectors meet to decide who will travel to South Korea this summer.
(14) Enders, who has long battled against political interference at EADS, said: "We want to create a company that is even more successful internationally and attracts investors.
(15) Enders often becomes "a participant rather than just an observer" in big deals, says David Moody, director of strategy at BBC Worldwide.
(16) The Ender method consists of insertion of round, flexible, condylocephalic intramedullary nails.
(17) In particular, Enders is critical of newspaper companies - including the Guardian Media Group (which publishes this newspaper), News International and Trinity Mirror - that have collectively spent hundreds of millions replacing printing presses.
(18) Yeah, you 'eard: in true 'Enders style it turns out they're not brother and sister, but ma and son.
(19) Of 100 patients with a peritrochanteric fracture of the femur treated by the Ender technique, we reviewed the cases of seventy-nine after an average follow-up of 11.4 months in order to clarify the indications for the procedure and investigate variables that may affect the results.
(20) During the past decade, Enders has built up an enviable reputation for outspoken and contrarian analysis of the prospects for technology, telecoms and media across Europe.