chronologic


Also found in: Thesaurus.

chron·o·log·i·cal

 (krŏn′ə-lŏj′ĭ-kəl, krō′nə-) also chron·o·log·ic (-lŏj′ĭk)
adj.
1. Arranged in order of time of occurrence.
2. Relating to or in accordance with chronology.

chron′o·log′i·cal·ly adv.
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
Translations
Mentioned in ?
References in periodicals archive ?
The study showed for every five years a woman's biologic age was older than her chronologic or actual age, known as age acceleration, she had a 15 percent increase in her chance of developing breast cancer.
B) Chronologic changes are shown of the lesion in the right frontal lobe in response to antitoxoplasmic therapy after 1 (left), 3 (center), and 12 (right) months.
The study showed for every five years a woman's biologic age was older than her chronologic or actual age, known as age acceleration and she had a 15 per cent increase in her chance of developing breast cancer.
Among those included, 55 per cent of males and 57 per cent of females between the ages of 50 and 60 years had their estimated age younger than their chronologic age.
Photo ageing produces more severe changes in gene expression than chronologic ageing20.
SAN DIEGO -- The wider picture of the patient's health and prognosis, not just chronologic age, should enter into the clinical decision to initiate dialysis, according to Bjorg Thorsteinsdottir, MD, a palliative care physician at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.
With only a few exceptions, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that preterm and low-birth-weight infants be immunized with routinely recommended childhood vaccines at the same chronologic age as term and normal-birth-weight infants.
"Sex Differences in Alzheimer Risk: Brain Imaging of Endocrine vs Chronologic Aging," Neurology 89(13): 1382-1390.
Chronologic Age at hospitalization for respiratory syncytial virus among preterm and term infants in the United States.
When BMD z-scores are between -1.0 and -1.9, "at risk for low BMD or bone mineral content for chronologic age" is used for terminology, and when BMD z-scores are less than or equal to -2.0, the terms "low BMD" or "low bone mineral content for chronologic age" were preferred instead of "osteoporosis" (9).
Moreover, typical vaginal symptoms such as dryness discomfort are associated with decreased desire due to progressive chronologic aging (2).