(a.) Of or pertaining to old age; proceeding from, or characteristic of, old age; affected with the infirmities of old age; as, senile weakness.
Example Sentences:
(1) Hyperopia was more common in younger persons, but senile cataract, macular degeneration and palpebral dermatochalasis or blepharochalasis were more common in older persons.
(2) Mucosal drying medications and senile salivary gland atrophy seemed to contribute to the high frequency of sicca in this population with a lesser proportion of the subjects demonstrating previously undiagnosed Sjögren's and possible Sjögren's syndrome.
(3) Key findings include a progressive degeneration of these cholinergic neurons characterized by the formation of immunoreactively atypical NFT, the loss of intraneuronal lipofuscin, a lack of senile plaque and beta-amyloid deposition within the basal forebrain, and end-stage gliosis without residual extracellular NFT.
(4) This finding is consistent with the hypothesis that the majority of deaths attributed to presenile dementia and the majority of deaths from senile dementia are the result of the same disease entity.
(5) Diagnoses like neuroses, alcoholism, and senile dementia produced many visits by few patients.
(6) Her mother had only senile pigmented modification of the fundus and her three daughters had mild macular pigmented changes, like "salt and pepper."
(7) The reduced effectiveness of protection by antibody against viruses which had caused influenza disease 20--30 years ago was conducive to the spread of influenza Al cases among middle-aged and senile population.
(8) Since the detailed molecular events leading to the formation of amyloid-containing senile plaques of the Alzheimer's disease (AD) brain are incompletely understood, the present studies were undertaken to address this issue using a combination of molecular and cytochemical approaches.
(9) Recently in senile dementia of Alzheimer type, neuronal loss of cholinergic neurons in the substantia innominata is described.
(10) Whereas markedly high values of 1, 25-(OH)2D in plasma were found in some cases of primary hyperparathyroidism with prominent bone resorption, relatively low values were seen in some patients with chronic renal failure, senile osteoporosis, osteomalacia and hypercalcemia due to bone metastasis.
(11) The ultrastructure of the water-clear cells of the parathyroid glands in the starved adult and senile animals almost resembled that of the control adult and senile animals.
(12) The study of the drugs effective in the treatment of cognitive deficits and memory loss associated with senile dementia of the Alzheimer's type--tacrine and amiridin, acetylcholinesterase inhibitor physostigmine and nootrop piracetam on uptake of 3H-serotonin (3H-5-HT), 3H-adrenaline (3H-AD), 3H-noradrenaline (3H-HA), 2H-dopamine (3H-DA), 3H-gamma-aminobutyric acid (3H-GABA), 3H-glutamic acid (3H-GLU), 3H-aspartic acid (3H-ASP) and 3H-glycine (3H-GLI) showed that tacrine and amiridin (5 x 10(-5) M) statistically significantly (P less than 0.05) inhibited the uptake of 3H-DA and 3H-5-HT.
(13) The results are as follows: The neurites of senile DRG cells appeared 7 days later than the neurites of neonatal DRG cells.
(14) Although a trend was observed for TMA-DPH mobility to parallel histopathologic severity in hippocampal specimens, the biophysical changes did not appear to reflect a loss of neuronal membranes relative to glial membranes or the presence of senile plaques or neurofibrillary tangles.
(15) Corticotropin-releasing hormone-immunoreactivity (CRH-IR) and CRH receptors (binding capacity and affinity) were measured in postmortem cortical areas from depressed subjects, two groups of senile dementia of the Alzheimer type (SDAT), and age-, sex-, and postmortem-delay-matched controls.
(16) Anti-beta-peptide stained cerebrovascular and plaque core amyloid in all AD cases as well as cerebrovascular amyloid and senile plaque core amyloid in five elderly CJD cases.
(17) Senile dementia and admission other than from the patient's own home, were factors associated with a poorer long term outcome.
(18) In this study 40 fragments of human skin from 4 groups were included: children, adults, aged people with lesions of senile keratosis and without lesions of senile keratosis.
(19) To examine the efficacy of cholinergic enhancement in senile dementia of the Alzheimer type (SDAT), oral physostigmine was given to eight patients in a cross-over trial of three dose levels and a matching placebo.
(20) Here the presence and distribution within senile plaques of various epitopes of the beta-amyloid precursor protein (APP) are compared with the distribution of A beta P itself and markers for plaque neurites.
Superannuated
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Superannuate
Example Sentences:
(1) Taking time out from paid employment to look after children and ageing parents meant they had less superannuation.
(2) Hockey carried on in his budget speech about the age pension becoming unaffordable, but within three years this top-end superannuation concession will cost more than the age pension.
(3) The government’s tax discussion paper released earlier in the year advocated for an overhaul of the superannuation system , saying the current system will put pressure on the economy in the long run.
(4) He has determined superannuation policy and is out there threatening to cross the floor again on the backpacker tax.” On Wednesday Labor’s agriculture spokesman, Joel Fitzgibbon, said the tax would fail to raise $500m as planned because backpackers would stop coming to Australia.
(5) If the GST is shelved, the government will go to the election promising changes to superannuation, perhaps to negative gearing and cuts to family payments to fund a lower personal tax, while Labor makes similar cuts to super and probably negative gearing to pay for hospitals and schools.
(6) The report suggested the option of restoring the general prohibition on direct leverage of superannuation funds on a prospective basis.
(7) For planning and designing the reconstruction of an superannuated radiological department of a neurosurgical supra-regional hospital the following requirements had to be taken into account: 1.
(8) For women, this means continuing with the program we already have – valuing feminised labour, removing the barriers to women fully participating in work, and ensuring government levers such as superannuation and taxation reduce rather than intensify the wealth gap.
(9) In the UK, the £48bn Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS), which provides pensions for 330,000 university and college staff, has a substantial stake in the top 50 coal companies, as do six local authority pensions funds including West Yorkshire .
(10) But I believe they raise questions about the purpose of the concessions particularly as it relates to superannuation.” He ruled out making “effective retrospective” changes to super by taxing in the retirement phase.
(11) The wheels are falling off because the Chinese economy is slowing and commodity prices are falling and because the parliamentary gridlock means governments have been unable to do anything about it.” Richardson joined a growing push for the government to consider savings from the revenue the government forgoes due to the generous treatment of superannuation savings – $30bn in 2014-15 and forecast to rise to close to $50bn in 2017-18.
(12) Treasury advice released under freedom of information suggests the government was considering an overhaul of existing superannuation concessions before Labor announced its policy.
(13) Such arrangements are often not captured within the official counts of homelessness, but there is no disputing this is an emerging trend, and one that must be urgently addressed.” According to the report, women of retirement age had 57% less superannuation savings than men due to greater caring responsibilities through the course of their lives.
(14) The government needs to learn not to just oppose ideas that the opposition puts forward especially when our ideas are in the national interest.” Labor’s policy would tax retirees who earn more than $75,000 from superannuation in the retirement phase at 15%, and lower the high income superannuation contribution threshold from $300,000 to $250,000.
(15) In subsequent years, armed with his trusty sword, Excalibur (a superannuated prop from John Boorman 's film of the same name), he persistently challenged the law against assembling at Stonehenge, while the site itself grew increasingly to resemble one of the military encampments on nearby Salisbury Plain.
(16) A recent report by the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia also found that thousands of retirees with more than $2m in their superannuation accounts received more than $5.2bn collectively in tax-free income-stream payments in a single year.
(17) Unlike Labor we have no plans to increase taxes on superannuation and will honour our commitment not to make any adverse or unexpected changes to superannuation during this term,” he told the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
(18) Labor has argued its changes strike the right balance and they would still maintain concessional treatment of superannuation.
(19) Labor plans to wind back generous superannuation concessions for Australia’s high income earners, unveiling two new measures raising revenue worth $14bn over ten years.
(20) Speaking at Parliament House on Tuesday, the prime minister, Tony Abbott , ruled out any changes to superannuation this term of parliament.