What's the difference between octagenarian and octogenarian?
Octagenarian
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Since 73% of dementias are at least partly caused by Alzheimer's disease in the area examined and because the short test used discriminates demented from healthy octagenarians as well as tests involving extensive examinations, the findings of this study suggest with a high probability that the [Al] of drinking water is not an essential factor in the pathogenesis of senile dementia.
(2) The average hospital stay of octagenarians was 9.8 days as opposed to 4.9 days in patients less than 70 years of age.
(3) To better appreciate the duo's fundamental good neighbourliness, step outside the Dulwich's exhibition galleries to watch Edwin Parker , a recently made short film in which Tacita Dean trains her camera on the octagenarian Twombly.
(4) Operations in octagenarians as a percentage of all operative procedures increased during the period considered from 1.1% to 5.1%.
(5) Our data show that an operative approach to heart disease can be done safely in a high risk octagenarian population.
(6) 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.
(7) The principle aim of this study was to determine factors predictive of operative mortality in octagenarians, their clinical profiles, and length of stay compared to younger patients in similar diagnostic categories.
(8) Of octagenarians, 20% are senile, and every fourth woman over 65 has suffered fractures caused by osteopenia, the incidence of which increases by 6% per year.
(9) That reality is evident on the streets of Tokyo, and not just with octagenarian taxi drivers.
(10) Most patients were in NYHA Functional Class III (septuagenarian 25%, octogenarian 23%) and in Class IV (septuagenarian 59%, octagenarian 72%) preoperatively.
(11) After the age of 30, glomerular filtration and renal blood flow rates decline in a linear fashion, so that values in octagenarians are only half to two thirds those measured in young adults.
(12) In order to further understand the outcome in this population, we performed a retrospective review of octagenarians undergoing open-heart surgery over a 2-year period.
Octogenarian
Definition:
(n.) A person eighty years, or more, of age.
Example Sentences:
(1) Abdominal aneurysm repair in octogenarians is controversial.
(2) Modi had to isolate and sideline the BJP's octogenarian elder statesman, LK Advani , before he could become its frontrunner.
(3) Thus, resection of a nonruptured AAA in 63 octogenarians was carried out with an overall mortality of 4.7%.
(4) She rented a flat to be near his grave at Vienne, near Lyons, and was befriended by a neighbour, the octogenarian Baron Philippe de Rothschild, who had run a theatre in his youth.
(5) The octogenarian head of state was due to meet the leaders of smaller parties, including the neo-fascist Chrysi Avgi, later on Sunday night.
(6) The increasing safety of cardiac surgery has led to the frequent referral of octogenarians for operation.
(7) Octogenarians underwent revascularization procedures with relatively low morbidity and mortality.
(8) "How do you convince the world that you are open for business while brandishing nuclear weapons at the world's largest economy and kidnapping an octogenarian?"
(9) And then there's her heroically blunt songs, such as You're Gonna Die Soon , performed to a group of octogenarians.
(10) Thus, short- and long-term outcomes after aortic valve replacement for aortic stenosis in otherwise healthy octogenarians is generally favorable, even in the presence of preoperative left ventricular systolic dysfunction.
(11) The relative infrequency of coronary surgery over the age of 80 years suggests that there is already strong selection against surgery in octogenarians.
(12) One elderly man, an octogenarian who had nowhere else to go, is being put up in the local Home Depot store.
(13) Riva is not being curmudgeonly (well, not much), but it is easy to forget that she is not playing at being an octogenarian.
(14) The mnestic and naming performance of the octogenarians did not differ between the high- and low-content-areas.
(15) Elective and emergency aortic aneurysm surgery can be performed with reasonable survival and a good quality of life, and therefore cannot be denied to octogenarians on the basis of age alone.
(16) Melbourne Victory have been stable for several years now, while Sydney FC (or Sydney City as my octogenarian father inadvertently calls them, albeit without any ironic intent), have been in a similar position for the past couple of seasons.
(17) The octogenarian communist revolutionary fell for the young new president and became "obsessed", according to confidential US diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks.
(18) It showed that upper GIE in octogenarians is a safe and easy as in other age groups, and provides more useful information.
(19) In women, the level of HDL-C and apo A-I was similar in premenopausal and octogenarian subjects but higher in postmenopausal women than in octogenarians, while HDL2-C and apo A-II were similar in the three groups.
(20) We present three patients with successful surgical repair of abdominal aortic aneurysms with signs of imminent rupture in octogenarians.