(a.) Occurring once in five years, or at the end of every five years; also, lasting five years. A quinquennial event.
Example Sentences:
(1) With a key quinquennial Communist party congress looming later this year, Chinese officials hoped to use the summit to bolster Xi’s political standing back home.
(2) The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions' (IFLA) Biological and Medical Sciences Libraries Section conducts activities along four strands: world and regional health sciences library directories, mutually supportive regional groupings, a quarterly newsletter, and the quinquennial International Congress on Medical Librarianship.
(3) Our next quinquennial plan for transplantation studies extends MPI to corneal and unrelated marrow transplantation.
(4) Assuming no demented patients younger than 29 years, the incidence rates in the three quinquennial periods for all dements were 79.4, 60.3, and 67.7; for Alzheimer's disease they were 51.9, 40.0, and 47.8.
(5) The author studied demographic data from the U.S., France, Chile, England, and Wales, considering birth rate, mortality, sex ratio and male proportions in quinquennial periods from 1960 to 1977.
(6) When a comparison was made between Victoria, Australia and England and Wales, it was found that between 1939-64 there was a great similarity between percentage distribution of births by quinquennial age groups, a common trend to a greater proportion of births to younger mothers, and a decreasing mean maternal age at birth.
(7) The need within the district each year for coronary angiography seemed to be between 111 and 171 and for surgical revascularisation of the myocardium between 63 and 96 procedures; the first figure is the mean of the second quinquennial period (1984-88) and the second figure the total for 1988.
(8) Behind an overall mortality rate of 0.19 deaths per 1,000 anaesthetics attributable to anaesthesia, lies a 6-fold decrease in the incidence, computed quinquennially, from 0.43 per 1,000 anaesthetics in the first quinquennium to 0.07 per 1,000 anaesthetics in the last.
(9) The two major groupings in the assembly, the centre-right European People's party (EPP) and centre-left Socialists and Democrats (PES) have little purchase on voters who tend, when they vote at all, to use the quinquennial polls as an opportunity to sound off at domestic governments.
(10) The data were analyzed according to the same quinquennial age groups as in the other studies.
(11) The mortality for all types of leukaemia in that period was studied in three aspects: (a) By reviewing the rates of specific mortality for ages under 20 years, at quinquennial intervals and per millions of inhabitants of those ages.
(12) Study of all medical records yielded incidence rates for the quinquennial periods of 1960-1964, 1965-1969, and 1970-1974.
(13) The mean quinquennial death coefficients according to causes and age groups showed a gradual increase with age, more marked from 35 years on for Chapters VII, I and II.
(14) A further two quinquennial surveys took place at 10 of them, thus completing 20 years' observations.
(15) The results of a quinquennial audit of trauma care in the Cambridge Military Hospital using the TRISS method is presented.
(16) Results of the sixth quinquennial survey of the resident population of Glenside Hospital, Bristol, are reported.
(17) For the male birth cohorts aged 30-69 in 1965 in the age range of 40-79, studied by quinquennial calendar time intervals from 1955 to 1985, it was found that, (i) for nonsmokers, the estimated lung cancer mortality rate was comparable to the rates reported in the US or Britain, assigning 20 to 25% proportions of nonsmokers, (ii) for smokers, the estimated duration of smoking was shorter than would be expected from the age when smoking was started according to various epidemiological surveys, and (iii) the estimated average numbers of cigarettes smoked per day by smokers were similar to those obtained by epidemiological studies, when these were estimated by incorporating a part of Doll and Peto's dose-response relationship.
Quinquennium
Definition:
(n.) Space of five years.
Example Sentences:
(1) During the quinquennium there was a changing pattern of admission rates for patients from different counties, and some evidence of 'space-time' clustering.
(2) Age-adjusted incidence rates increased from 88 during the 1961 to 1965 quinquennium to 125 during the 1976 to 1980 quinquennium; these rates probably reflect better recognition rather than a true increase in incidence rates.
(3) The increased proportion of infants weighing less than 2500 g may be explained by the overall reduction in gestational age at delivery, which, in turn, may have resulted from increased use of elective delivery during the second quinquennium.
(4) Rates of triple births decreased slightly till the early 70's and increased in relative and absolute terms from late 70's on, thus if in the quinquennium 1955-1959 only 1 out of 99 multiple births was a triplet, this ratio increased to 1 out of 70 in 1980-1983.
(5) Women who were premenopausal at presentation still had a significant excess of deaths in the fourth quinquennium of follow-up.
(6) Systolic blood pressure shows an increasing trend with age, with mean levels greater than 160 mmHg in each quinquennium, while the prevalence of hypertension ranges between 60 and 75%.
(7) The survival time as measured from either first admission or from last discharge to death was appreciably longer in the second quinquennium.
(8) Following a description of the method of calculating the regression coefficients, data on mortality from breast cancer in England and Wales for 1951-1970 are analysed as a function of age group, quinquennium of birth and quinquennium of death.
(9) An analysis of the age distribution showed that rhabdomyosarcoma is more than three times as frequent as non-rhabdomyosarcomatous soft-tissue tumours in the first quinquennium.
(10) If we consider the last quinquennium's statistics, we remark that treatment's incidence is lower to 0.4% conforming to literature's data.
(11) There was a higher cumulative percentage of the male patients who became affected at each age quinquennium.
(12) A table was constructed indicating the cumulative percentage of those who became ill by the time they passed through each age quinquennium.
(13) Eleven patients died of their tumor, three in the first quinquennium and eight in ght third.
(14) However, due to the increased popularity of sterilization, the proportion of ectopic pregnancies in women who had been sterilized increased from 0% in the 1950s to 21% in the quinquennium 1975-1979.
(15) Data show an inversion of the trend of the previous quinquennium and evidentiate a wider use of chemoprophylaxis and a more effective therapeutic action by the Sanitary Structure in Lombardy.
(16) Comparison with the national figures for all Italy did not reveal an excess of deaths from lung cancer but during the last quinquennium of observation, the SMR for lung cancer rose to 206.
(17) The results are: 1) any kind of lesion is more frequent among in-patient than mass-screening subjects; 2) the prevalence of benign displasia, incipient, in situ and invasive carcinoma per age group, considered per quinquennium, shows a three-phase trend, both in mass screening and in-patient cases; 3) the time of evolution is different for cervicocarcinoma in the different age groups of incipience.
(18) Behind an overall mortality rate of 0.19 deaths per 1,000 anaesthetics attributable to anaesthesia, lies a 6-fold decrease in the incidence, computed quinquennially, from 0.43 per 1,000 anaesthetics in the first quinquennium to 0.07 per 1,000 anaesthetics in the last.
(19) Sixty-eight patients were in the first quinquennium of life, 13 in the second, and 29 in the third.
(20) Over the quinquennium 1964-68 the crude annual incidence of Kaposi's sarcoma in Uganda per million of the population was 7·9 overall, 14·6 for males and 1·1 for females.