(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.
Welder
Definition:
(n.) One who welds, or unites pieces of iron, etc., by welding.
(n.) One who welds, or wields.
(n.) A manager; an actual occupant.
Example Sentences:
(1) Afterwards, the unemployed welder said: “I just didn’t like his attitude.
(2) Personnel records of over 1000 welders and electricians but only 235 caulkers and 557 platers employed at a shipyard in NE England between 1940 and 1968 were obtained and the mortality followed up to December 1982.
(3) The highest combined exposure (10-fold allowable value) was that of welders of steel coated with the zinc layer, using the metal active gas welding.
(4) A ccents from every state in the union can be heard as workers pour off the train each day in Williston, North Dakota, ready to try their luck as the welders, truck drivers, plumbers, oil rig roughnecks, frackers, water carriers and road crews required to support the booming fracking industry – but also as plumbers, lawyers, cooks, accountants and everything else it takes to build a rapidly burgeoning city.
(5) General health was good in both vocational groups and isometric strength for the welders was intermediate between that of office clerks (who had lower strength) and that of fishermen (who had higher strength, as disclosed in a previous investigation).
(6) Despite the short duration of follow-up, some occupation-cancer associations, consistently documented in others surveillance studies, have been detected in our study: lung cancer among motor vehicle drivers (SMR 143, 27 obs), metal molders (SMR 178, 8 obs), welders (SMR 241, 7 obs) and wood workers (SMR 218, 12 obs), leukemias and electrical workers (SMR 367, 6 obs).
(7) These figures represent a participation rate of 37.1% in welders and 36.7% in non-welding subjects.
(8) Arc welders' pneumoconiosis appears to be more than a benign siderosis resulting from particulate iron deposition.
(9) A cross-sectional survey was conducted to understand the extent of occupational injuries and the perception of hazards among the road-side welders in the city of Karachi.
(10) Whereas the patterns of lung cancer mortality in these results suggest that the risk of lung cancer is higher for stainless steel than mild steel welders the different level of risk for these two categories of welding exposure cannot be quantified with precision.
(11) The study consisted of 226 male construction welders who had never worked in shipyards.
(12) An arc welder of 32 years of age is presented with a random finding of miliar reticulonodular shadows in the plain film of the thorax.
(13) In 2004, Marvin Heemeyer , a 52-year-old welder and the victim of expropriation, drove a bulletproof tank into town and demolished a dozen municipal buildings before shooting himself.
(14) If you were a welder in a shipyard you were somebody, but if you were working in a shop somewhere, well …" He recalls talking to a priest from Los Angeles, who was devoted to working with the gangs of the Californian city.
(15) The observation period and the criteria for inclusion of welders varied from country to country.
(16) A study was made of the exposure of welders and cutters in Dutch industries to air pollution consisting of total particulate, chromium, nickel, copper, nitrogen oxides, ozone, carbon monoxide and other pollutants.
(17) Histological examination on lung tissue obtained from 10 symptomatic welders was performed by two certified pathologists without the knowledge of the patients' clinical condition.
(18) Injury to the ear in welders is a recognized but poorly documented entity.
(19) The study of 64 welders employed at automated work stands in the railway car factory conducted in 1989 and 1990 has shown that the psychomotor efficiency level in the examined workers (except for a few cases) was normal.
(20) The urinary aluminum concentrations rose rapidly in volunteers exposed only for 1 d and returned to the preexposure levels with an estimated half-time of about 8 h. The welders were monitored for one workweek.