What's the difference between nonagenarian and septuagenarian?

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.

Septuagenarian


Definition:

  • (n.) A person who is seventy years of age; a septuagenary.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Earlier on Friday a number of them had attempted to gain entry to the high security venue where the major events are held and Klaus Schwab, the septuagenarian who founded the WEF, has offered to meet them on Saturday.
  • (2) Between Jan. 1, 1979, and Jan. 1, 1986, 72 septuagenarians had open heart operations for disease of the mitral valve.
  • (3) The investigation comprised those septuagenarians who were still alive and had not moved abroad.
  • (4) We conclude that healthy septuagenarian women can increase aerobic capacity, leg strength, and Type IIb muscle fiber area with a long-duration, combined aerobic-resistance exercise program.
  • (5) Of 92 survivors, 78% of the septuagenarians and 87% of the octogenarians improved by one or more NYHA class postoperatively.
  • (6) His hilarious admissions on Friday Night With Jonathan Ross , when he confessed he failed to bed septuagenarian Dame Eileen Atkins and offered the truth about his internet 2008 sex tape, are a case in point.
  • (7) To analyze morbidity and mortality in septuagenarians undergoing isolated coronary artery bypass surgery, we compared the results in 685 septuagenarians with those in 3,142 patients under the age of 70 years, all of whom underwent this procedure from January 1981 to December 1986.
  • (8) The 30-day mortality among septuagenarians was reduced to 3% in 1988-1989 by routine revascularization in significant coronary artery disease.
  • (9) Coronary artery bypass grafting or uncomplicated valve replacement can be safely performed in the septuagenarian.
  • (10) But while Sanders continues to gain momentum and money, political observers remain wary of whether the unkempt septuagenarian socialist can actually defeat Clinton in the era of almost unlimited campaign spending, or whether Democratic voters are just enjoying what one political operative in New Hampshire this week called “a summer fling”.
  • (11) Of course, it was my time, so I remember it fondly,” says Maya Borisovna, a septuagenarian guide, as she explains the artefacts on display.
  • (12) Hannah Blake, 21, a professional dancer, led women ranging from teens to septuagenarians in energetic moves.
  • (13) Early death was reported in 41 (6.5%) septuagenarians and in 2 (3.1%) octogenarians.
  • (14) The low-budget show has been an immediate hit and its septuagenarian stars will tour Italy until March.
  • (15) A consecutive series of 96 septuagenarians (mean age, 74) and 24 octogenarians (mean age, 83) underwent coronary artery bypass (CAB) and valve operations using hypothermia and hyperkalemic cardioplegia in a 45-month period; there was a mean of 2.6 grafts per patient.
  • (16) Open heart surgery has been extended to the septuagenarian.
  • (17) Inevitably, Keshi was sacked, replaced by the septuagenarian German Otto Pfister.
  • (18) Most patients were in New York Heart Association (NYHA) class IV (57% of the septuagenarians and 88% of the octogenarians) preoperatively.
  • (19) It is a personal test for the chancellor since the the bright young things at Treasury hate their authority being challenged, especially by a bunch of septuagenarians.
  • (20) When she was old, that wasn't unusual any more, and the joke became instead how startling it was to see a septuagenarian this filthy, fierce and unflinching – not least about decorum, decay and impending death.

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