(a.) Pertaining to, or founded on, the number sixty.
(n.) A sexagesimal fraction.
Example Sentences:
Sixty
Definition:
(a.) Six times ten; fifty-nine and one more; threescore.
(n.) The sum of six times ten; sixty units or objects.
(n.) A symbol representing sixty units, as 60, lx., or LX.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sixty-six patients were followed for 12 months in an open safety study.
(2) Sixty-five conditional PSROs are implementing review in acute care hospitals in their geographic area, and 55 planning groups are developing plans to qualify for conditional PSRO designation.
(3) Sixty of 65 H. pylori-infected adults were correctly identified by the test.
(4) Sixty-one patients with Stage IB cervical carcinoma treated initially by Type III radical hysterectomy underwent water cystometry 6 or more months after surgery.
(5) During sixty-six months, 145 Kock pouches were constructed: 79 for continent cutaneous diversion (44 men, 35 women), 54 bladder replacements by men, 12 ileo-rectal diversions (10 women, 2 men).
(6) Sixty-three patients were randomly divided into six groups by the following intrathecal morphine injection: group 1 (0 mg), group 2 (0.025 mg), group 3 (0.05 mg), group 4 (0.075 mg), group 5 (0.1 mg), and group 6 (0.125 mg).
(7) Sixty-two serum concentrations were obtained from 12 infected patients enrolled in a vancomycin pharmacokinetic study.
(8) Five hundred sixty grandmultiparous women were interviewed as to their contraceptive awareness, desirability and use in the three major hospitals in Benin City, Nigeria, between October 1, 1980 and September, 1981.
(9) Sixty-five patients with recrudescent orofacial herpes simplex virus (HSV) infections all had circulating HSV-specific antibody measured by ELISA and cell-mediated immunity (CMI) to HSV by in vitro lymphoproliferation.
(10) Sixty-eight patients (mean age 49 years) were studied with contrast echocardiography (CE) and Doppler echocardiography (DE) to evaluate both methods for detecting and grading tricuspid regurgitation (TR).
(11) Three hundred sixty five children and hundred thirty nine adults with atopic dermatitis were divided into three groups.
(12) Sixty-five percent of the consultations resulted in an endoscopic procedure.
(13) Sixty-nine patients (79%) were NYHA Functional Class (FC) I or II at latest follow-up.
(14) Eight bibliographic control elements are defined, and the criteria for evaluating the occurrence of these elements in sixty-four sample catalogs are specified.
(15) Sixty per cent of children had calcium intakes below two-thirds of the allowance.
(16) Sixty mother-toddler dyads (30 boys and 30 girls) participated as subjects.
(17) Two hundred and sixty six of the 309 patients recruited (86%) completed the study, with satisfactory compliance.
(18) Three hundred and sixty-nine homosexually active men from different areas of England were each assessed twice at an an interval of 9 months in order to examine the extent to which a number of social-psychological factors predicted subsequent high risk sexual behaviour.
(19) Sixty days after 5,7-DHT administration, immunoreactive serotonin in the forebrain, particularly the suprachiasmatic nuclei and intergeniculate leaflets, was severely depleted in 16 animals, moderately depleted in four and only slightly affected in four.
(20) Two hundred sixty-six male patients achieved a complete response and were evaluable for the effects of prophylactic therapy on the duration of remission.