What's the difference between septuagenarian and sexagenarian?

Septuagenarian


Definition:

  • (n.) A person who is seventy years of age; a septuagenary.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Earlier on Friday a number of them had attempted to gain entry to the high security venue where the major events are held and Klaus Schwab, the septuagenarian who founded the WEF, has offered to meet them on Saturday.
  • (2) Between Jan. 1, 1979, and Jan. 1, 1986, 72 septuagenarians had open heart operations for disease of the mitral valve.
  • (3) The investigation comprised those septuagenarians who were still alive and had not moved abroad.
  • (4) We conclude that healthy septuagenarian women can increase aerobic capacity, leg strength, and Type IIb muscle fiber area with a long-duration, combined aerobic-resistance exercise program.
  • (5) Of 92 survivors, 78% of the septuagenarians and 87% of the octogenarians improved by one or more NYHA class postoperatively.
  • (6) His hilarious admissions on Friday Night With Jonathan Ross , when he confessed he failed to bed septuagenarian Dame Eileen Atkins and offered the truth about his internet 2008 sex tape, are a case in point.
  • (7) To analyze morbidity and mortality in septuagenarians undergoing isolated coronary artery bypass surgery, we compared the results in 685 septuagenarians with those in 3,142 patients under the age of 70 years, all of whom underwent this procedure from January 1981 to December 1986.
  • (8) The 30-day mortality among septuagenarians was reduced to 3% in 1988-1989 by routine revascularization in significant coronary artery disease.
  • (9) Coronary artery bypass grafting or uncomplicated valve replacement can be safely performed in the septuagenarian.
  • (10) But while Sanders continues to gain momentum and money, political observers remain wary of whether the unkempt septuagenarian socialist can actually defeat Clinton in the era of almost unlimited campaign spending, or whether Democratic voters are just enjoying what one political operative in New Hampshire this week called “a summer fling”.
  • (11) Of course, it was my time, so I remember it fondly,” says Maya Borisovna, a septuagenarian guide, as she explains the artefacts on display.
  • (12) Hannah Blake, 21, a professional dancer, led women ranging from teens to septuagenarians in energetic moves.
  • (13) Early death was reported in 41 (6.5%) septuagenarians and in 2 (3.1%) octogenarians.
  • (14) The low-budget show has been an immediate hit and its septuagenarian stars will tour Italy until March.
  • (15) A consecutive series of 96 septuagenarians (mean age, 74) and 24 octogenarians (mean age, 83) underwent coronary artery bypass (CAB) and valve operations using hypothermia and hyperkalemic cardioplegia in a 45-month period; there was a mean of 2.6 grafts per patient.
  • (16) Open heart surgery has been extended to the septuagenarian.
  • (17) Inevitably, Keshi was sacked, replaced by the septuagenarian German Otto Pfister.
  • (18) Most patients were in New York Heart Association (NYHA) class IV (57% of the septuagenarians and 88% of the octogenarians) preoperatively.
  • (19) It is a personal test for the chancellor since the the bright young things at Treasury hate their authority being challenged, especially by a bunch of septuagenarians.
  • (20) When she was old, that wasn't unusual any more, and the joke became instead how startling it was to see a septuagenarian this filthy, fierce and unflinching – not least about decorum, decay and impending death.

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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