(n. pl.) The years of one's age having the termination -teen, beginning with thirteen and ending with nineteen; as, a girl in her teens.
Example Sentences:
(1) Proving that not all teens are content with being part of a purely digital community, Adele Mayr attended a YouTube meet-up in London’s Hyde Park.
(2) The Black pregnant teen is a microcosm of the impact of society on the most vulnerable.
(3) I first saw them live at the location of the terror attack, Manchester Arena – then the MEN – aged 15, a teen at a gig with my friends, as many of the Grande’s fans were.
(4) Effects on pre-LDA teens, adolescents targeted by LDA, initiation at LDA, and post-LDA drinking experience were assessed.
(5) Counselors who serve pregnant US teens face a number of obstacles in communicating adoption as a positive alternative.
(6) The media's image of a "gamer" might still be of a man in his teens or 20s sitting in front of Call of Duty for six-hour stretches, but that stereotype is now more inaccurate than ever.
(7) The most difficult problem is education of teen-age girls in the use of contraceptives.
(8) It's not a great stretch to see parallels between the movie's set-up and the film industry in 2012: disposable teens are manipulated into behaving in certain ways, before being degraded and dispatched, all the while being remotely observed by middle-aged men, gambling on their fates.
(9) Roche, 30, was born in High Wycombe, but moved with her British parents to Germany as a young child, and has been a national celebrity there since her teens, presenting music and culture shows.
(10) For a writer barely out of his teens when it was published, in 1946, the book was an unusual achievement.
(11) Acquaintance with a teenaged girl of roughly qualifying age is not essential, but probably helpful, when it comes to appreciating the degree to which Uncle Rupert's views on women, as still reflected in Page 3 , have not progressed since his executives started perving over snaps of their favourite teens.
(12) Three of the women here today are in their late teens or early 20s, travelling alone.
(13) The 2014 MTV Video Music Awards didn’t achieve the same degree of controversy as last year’s celebration of tongues, twerking and teddy bears , but between a speech by a homeless teen, an ill-timed wardrobe malfunction, and Beyoncé’s spectacular, epic, show-stopping finale, there were nevertheless a few moments worth watching.
(14) A total of 95% of new patients who attended the university's teen pregnancy clinic between May 8, 1989, and December 8, 1990, were interviewed.
(15) Even if Ian and I were still double dating as we did in our teens then the prospect of a reunion wouldn't interest me at all."
(16) In teens, however, birth weight was 200-400 g lower than in the adults in all weight-for-height categories except at 140% or more of standard.
(17) The physician who cares for adolescents has the responsibility of helping parenting teens to find needed support so that they will be able to overcome this significant hurdle.
(18) 62% of the teens--58% of those who delivered (the D group) and 65% of those who chose abortions (the A group)--indicated that their pregnancies were unwanted.
(19) "I had spent my teen years listening to Germaine Greer and Susie Orbach talking about female intellect," she says, and cheers all round.
(20) The aim of this work is to investigate the anti-comedo activity of 20% azelaic acid cream topically applied in a group of teen-agers affected by acne.
Thirteen
Definition:
(a.) One more than twelve; ten and three; as, thirteen ounces or pounds.
(n.) The number greater by one than twelve; the sum of ten and three; thirteen units or objects.
(n.) A symbol representing thirteen units, as 13 or xiii.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thirteen patients with bipolar affective illness who had received lithium therapy for 1-5 years were tested retrospectively for evidence of cortical dysfunction.
(2) Thirteen patients had had a posterior dislocation with an associated fracture of the femoral head located either caudad or cephalad to the fovea centralis (Pipkin Type-I or Type-II injury), one had had a posterior dislocation with associated fractures of the femoral head and neck (Pipkin Type III), two had had a posterior dislocation with associated fractures of the femoral head and the acetabular rim (Pipkin Type IV), and three had had a fracture-dislocation that we could not categorize according to the Pipkin classification.
(3) Thirteen of the dogs treated with various drug regimens lived for 90 days, after which time treatment was stopped; 10 of the dogs eventually rejected the grafts, but three had continued graft function for 6 months or longer and may be permanently tolerant.
(4) Thirteen per cent were in prison and 12% were resident in a therapeutic community.
(5) Thirteen patients with end-stage renal disease aged 70 years have been successfully treated by chronic dialysis treatment.
(6) Thirteen (33%) also had peripheral blood involvement.
(7) Thirteen asthmatic subjects (six aspirin tolerant and seven aspirin intolerant) in a stable clinical condition and ten healthy subjects were studied.
(8) Thirteen soft tissue sarcomas with ultrastructural evidence of nerve sheath differentiation were investigated by immunohistochemistry.
(9) Thirteen of the fourteen melanomas detected were on anatomic sites normally covered by clothing.
(10) Thirteen patients responded favorably to the drug, with a significant increase in systemic arterial blood pressure and urine production.
(11) Thirteen of these patients had tubulo-interstitial lesions in addition to their glomerular disease.
(12) Thirteen of 18 patients who had resections, six of 28 patients treated with HAI, and two of 27 IV-treated patients survived 2 years or more.
(13) Thirteen cases of pulmonary tuberculosis were diagnosed during the period.
(14) The binding of IgG present in patient plasma to cultured human endothelial cells was detected using radiolabeled staphylococcal protein A. Thirteen samples gave positive results and a significant association between endothelial-associated IgG and lupus anticoagulant was found (p less than 0.05).
(15) The test plates are incubated at 37 degrees C for a period ranging from thirteen to eighteen hours.
(16) Thirteen (36%) of the 36 patients died before adequate antifungal therapy could be administered, while 13 survived long enough to receive 1,500 mg of amphotericin B; actuarial survival of the latter group from the date 1,500 mg of amphotericin B had been infused was 47% at 1 year.
(17) Thirteen children with very short small bowel (less than or equal to 38 cm jejunoileum) beginning in the first month of life were enrolled in a home parenteral nutrition program between 1977 and 1984.
(18) Thirteen myoplasties using the sartorius muscle were performed on 12 patients from 1980 to 1985 for "healing problems" in the groin with subjacent synthetic grafts.
(19) Thirteen patients had prior surgery at or near the site of infection.
(20) The duration of symptoms up to the time of biopsy and histological verification of differentiated spinocellular carcinoma of the penis varied from one month to thirteen years.