What's the difference between octogenarian and sexagenarian?

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.

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.

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