CHRONOLOGICAL AGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chronological age mean? 

• CHRONOLOGICAL AGE (noun)
  The noun CHRONOLOGICAL AGE has 1 sense:

1. age measured by the time (years and months) that something or someone has existed

  Familiarity information: CHRONOLOGICAL AGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHRONOLOGICAL AGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Age measured by the time (years and months) that something or someone has existed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Context example:

his chronological age was 71 years

Hypernyms ("chronological age" is a kind of...):

age (how long something has existed)

 Context examples 

Recent work suggests that epigenetic age might also be associated with health outcomes independent of chronological age.

(DNA changes predict longevity, NIH)

Irrespective of chronological age, hair greying indicates biological age and could be a warning sign of increased cardiovascular risk.

(Grey Hair Linked with Increased Heart Disease Risk in Men, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A textual representation of a chronological age.

(Age Text, NCI Thesaurus)

They found that altering the activity of a gene called Cdk5 appeared to make the clocks run faster than normal, and the flies older than their chronological age.

(NIH scientists search for the clocks behind aging brain disorders, National Institutes of Health)

The rate of this shift is associated more with a queen’s biological age than her chronological age.

(Species Shifts in the Honey Bee Microbiome Differ with Age and Hive Role, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

The researchers found that a high hair whitening score was associated with increased risk of coronary artery disease independent of chronological age and established cardiovascular risk factors.

(Grey Hair Linked with Increased Heart Disease Risk in Men, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

These results support the notion that epigenetic age captures some aspect of biological aging over and above chronological age and other risk factors.

(DNA changes predict longevity, NIH)

When they performed the same experiments on 10-day-old mutant flies and compared the results with the standard curve, they found that the flies were “older” than their chronological age.

(NIH scientists search for the clocks behind aging brain disorders, National Institutes of Health)