What's the difference between nineties and nonagenarian?

Nineties


Definition:

  • (pl. ) of Ninety

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One hundred and ninety-nine children aged 7-14 and 177 adolescents in remission and minimal manifestations of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) were examined before and after fangotherapy with allowance for activity of the process, age-related reactivity.
  • (2) Ninety-five per cent were suffering from chiasmal compression pre-operatively.
  • (3) The flow cytometric measured DNA content (i.e., DNA index), S-fractions, and histopathologic malignancy grades were studied for ninety uterine cervical squamous cell carcinomas using tissue biopsies taken prior to radiotherapy.
  • (4) Ninety-six of the patients were women and 61 were in their 60s.
  • (5) One hundred and ninety-six herd mates without RP served as controls.
  • (6) Ninety semen specimens were analysed for use in an IVF-embryo transfer (ET) programme.
  • (7) Ninety-two percent of the patients were not reactive to dinitrochlorobenzene after sensitization; skin allograft rejection occurred in an average of 17 days.
  • (8) Nineteen Dacron velour fistula bypasses between the brachial artery and median basilic vein were performed in fifteen selected patients for a total dialysis period of ninety-six months.
  • (9) Ninety women with a positive pregnancy test and signs and symptoms of threatened abortion or ectopic pregnancy had endovaginal and abdominal sonography in order to compare the value of the two techniques for the detection of gestational abnormalities.
  • (10) Ninety-eight different malignant adnexal tumors were analyzed for the presence of epidermal growth factor (EGF)-specific binding sites and binding parameters were calculated by Scatchard plot analysis [G. Scatchard, Ann.
  • (11) Ninety-two per cent of patients who irrigated their colostomies gained fecal continence.
  • (12) Ninety-four of these 111 sites showed either normal perfusion or a small, nonsegmental corresponding perfusion defect.
  • (13) Ninety-nine percent of the cells had 46 chromosomes, and of 10 cells analysed by G-banding, all had a t(1;10)(p32;q24).
  • (14) One hundred ninety-seven cases occurred in the city of Zanesville, with 34.7% of cases concentrated in two neighborhoods in the eastern part of the city.
  • (15) However, for equal concentrations of myelin, almost an equal amount of C was consumed by the myelin of the two-day-old mice and by that of the ninety-day-old mice.
  • (16) Ninety-four percent of patients entered complete remission.
  • (17) Ten patients (16.67 per cent) of the mortality group were in the ninety-ninth percentile of risk, whereas these factors or variables of similar weight produced an equivalent risk of only 0.34 per cent of the survivors; thus, operative death in these circumstances could be predicted with an estimated 98.0 per cent assurance.
  • (18) The present study extended this effort to a noninstitutionalized life-span sample of males and females in six age groups (fourteen to ninety-four).
  • (19) Ninety pharmacists are employed in 13 hospital pharmacies; half of the pharmacists are occupied bb drug product manufacturing.
  • (20) Ninety-three patients with biopsy-proven primary hepatocellular carcinoma (PHC) from Uganda, Zambia, and the United States were examined for serologic evidence of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection.

Nonagenarian


Definition:

  • (n.) A person ninety years old.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 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.
  • (2) 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.
  • (3) Thirty-three semi-independent-living nonagenarian men, 90 to 97 years of age, at the California Veterans home were compared with a similar group of 32 men 65 to 75 years of age.
  • (4) One hundred people older than 90 years of age (nonagenarians) were also investigated.
  • (5) When asked if anyone wants seconds, hands shoot up in the air; I don’t think I’ve ever seen a group of octo- and nonagenarians so agile, or move so fast.
  • (6) Only minutes into his speech he had delegates, still tearful from the nonagenarian Harry Smith’s moving description of life and death before a free National Health Service, up on their feet roaring him on.
  • (7) She stands for the status quo.” “I’m for a revolution,” the nonagenarian continued, adding that she would likely vote for the Green Party should Clinton secure the nomination.
  • (8) One hospital bed is required for 28 nonagenarians, of whom 20% live in institutions in America and 50% in Sweden.
  • (9) The main organs in a series of 39 nonagenarians were weighed at autopsy.
  • (10) Israel's current president, the apparently immortal nonagenarian Shimon Peres, was also a Ben-Gurion protege and key player in 1948, but he was never a soldier.
  • (11) Nonagenarians were more physically active, had more family contacts, consumed less alcohol, smoked less, used fewer major medical medications but had more heart disease, visual and hearing problems, and lower scores of cognitive function, though within normal limits.
  • (12) Compared with average weights in younger subjects, the brains, livers, spleens, kidneys and lungs weighed less than usual in the majority of nonagenarians examined.
  • (13) Even more significantly, he and Geraldine McEwan played the nonagenarian couple in Eugène Ionesco's The Chairs, directed by Simon McBurney at the Royal Court (relocated at the Duke of York's during refurbishment).
  • (14) In the last month, I have met a feisty nonagenarian who had, until recently, been in good health.
  • (15) Despite these findings, the low perioperative mortality and morbidity indicate that operative treatment is still the treatment of choice in all nonagenarians with hip fractures, as it provides for easier nursing care and maximized functional outcome, with an expected 54% one-year survival rate.
  • (16) The incidence of the C4B*Q0 allele in women dropped to the level of the men only in the nonagenarian group.
  • (17) To evaluate senile gait patterns in octagenarians and nonagenarians, we provided a standardized questionnaire on gait disabilities to 153 elderly subjects over 88 years of age.
  • (18) A great difference in psychophysical functions was found between the centenarians and the nonagenarians.
  • (19) Space is at a premium in the Lords, and he will have to wait for a few nonagenarians to pass on before he gets even the tiniest corner of an office.
  • (20) Nonagenarians paced for complete heart block can expect to survive for as long as others of the same age without heart block.

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