(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.
Sexagenarian
Definition:
(n.) A person who is sixty years old.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ozzy Osbourne joined fellow sexagenarians Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward at the venue where the band made their Los Angeles debut in 1970, to address a large, black-t-shirt-clad crowd.
(2) Hopefully it takes more than a throwing knife hurled by a vengeful sexagenarian to take him down.
(3) Late results of pacemaker implanted in the octogenarian have been as good as in the sexagenarian.
(4) We studied two sexagenarians who had recurrent circumscribed attacks of amnesia.
(5) The sexagenarian patriarch has, however, expressed doubts about his sons’ plan for a commune of “patriots” in Oregon.
(6) Atrial septal defect in the sexagenarian can be closed without complication.
(7) In contrast in treated sexagenarians protracted awakening was observed.