What's the difference between seventieth and seventy?
Seventieth
Definition:
(a.) Next in order after the sixty-ninth; as, a man in the seventieth year of his age.
(a.) Constituting or being one of seventy equal parts.
(n.) One next in order after the sixty-ninth.
(n.) The quotient of a unit divided by seventy; one of seventy equal parts or fractions.
Example Sentences:
(1) By the fifty-fifth post-amputation day, the eight basic carpal elements are formed, with fusion of two of the units, intermedium with ulmare, occurring by the seventieth day.
(2) The thirtieth percentile of the United States urban distributions for both skin-fat sites was higher than the seventieth percentile of the Nigerian rural and urban distributions.
(3) Hydrocortisone treatment of the animals 3 days after sensitization suppresses the manifestation of DTH on the tenth day but not on the seventieth day and significantly decreases the weight of lymph nodes both in control and oxazolone-sensitized mice.
(4) In group 3, the stapedial reflex reappeared between the thirty-sixth and seventieth day and some paralysis was still present after 1 year.
(5) Results indicated that the mean outcome of the experimental group, treated with any type of treatment improved from the fiftieth percentile to the seventieth percentile relative to the mean of the untreated control groups.
(6) In veterinary medicine since the beginning of the seventieth several derivatives of imidazole are mainly and successfully used for therapy of pig dysentery.
(7) Since the seventieth low molecular weight formulas, "elemental diets", are applied in acute Crohn's disease in addition to drug therapy.
(8) Polyglactin, a synthetic absorbable suture, produced a moderate tissue reaction and uniformly disappeared between the twenty-eighth and seventieth days.
Seventy
Definition:
(a.) Seven times ten; one more than sixty-nine.
(n.) The sum of seven times ten; seventy units or objects.
(n.) A symbol representing seventy units, as 70, or lxx.
Example Sentences:
(1) Seventy patients were randomised to Fm 40 mg at night and Rn placebo and 62 to Rn 300 mg at night and Fm placebo.
(2) Of the 138 patients who were admitted to the study, only seventy-one (51 per cent) could be followed for an average of 3.5 years (a typical return rate of urban trauma centers).
(3) Seventy-six patients with established atherosclerotic disease were treated daily with either 250 micrograms of chromium orally as chromium chloride or a placebo for a period of 7 to 16 months (mean, 11.1 months).
(4) Seventy-eight patients presented optochiasmal arachnoiditis: 12 had trigeminal neuralgia; 1, arachnoiditis of the cerebellopontile angle; 6, arachnoiditis of the convex surface of the brain; and 3, the hypertensive hydrocephalic syndrome due to occlusion of the CSF routes.
(5) Seventy-five hands showed normal distal latency, in which cases, however, the SNCV of the ring finger was always outside the normal range, while the SNCVs of the thumb, index and middle fingers were abnormal in 64%, 80% and 92% of cases respectively.
(6) In all examined animals and in all examined tissues we found out a diploid number of seventy chromosomes.
(7) Seventy-three percent of 90 psychiatric inpatients had a coexisting anxiety disorder.
(8) Seventy-one patients with 80 lower limbs clinically suspected of deep venous thrombosis (DVT) were investigated by both Doppler ultrasound and venography.
(9) Seventy-four strains of Aeromonas hydrophila isolated from water and sediments of the River Porma (León, N.W.
(10) Seventy-five cases, representing a local prevalence of at least 1:36,000, were identified and examined.
(11) Seventy-two per cent of the 226 respondents had used the service, 23% more than four times, and 94% indicated satisfaction at having such a service available, with only 1% expressing dissatisfaction.
(12) Seventy male subjects participated in a six session study of feedback-mediated heart rate modification.
(13) One hundred seventy-six of 3,550 consecutive acute burn admissions received nonburn trauma.
(14) Seventy-three percent of respondents believed that endoscopy places personnel at risk for contracting AIDS.
(15) Seventy studies were performed consisting of 1) 15 min of aerobic perfusion (AP), 2) AP + 15 min of anoxic perfusion, 3) AP + 15 min of anoxic perfusion + 15 min of reoxygenation.
(16) Seventy-seven schools responded, representing a total of 9,930 students enrolled.
(17) Five hundred seventy-eight patients were assessed within 24 hours of admission by the ICU attending physician and predicted to live or die.
(18) Seventy-seven (62%) were caused by bacterial pathogens, 11 (9%) were caused by fungi, 10 (8%) were caused by viruses, five (4%) were caused by mycobacteria, and 22 (18%) were caused by toxins or other organisms.
(19) Seventy-five children, aged 8 to 12, who experienced unplanned hospitalizations were studied.
(20) Seventy-three subjects had the hyperdense middle cerebral artery sign, leading to a prevalence of 26.8% in the whole group and 41.2% in patients with a middle cerebral artery infarct.