COHORT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cohort mean? 

• COHORT (noun)
  The noun COHORT has 3 senses:

1. a company of companions or supporters

2. a band of warriors (originally a unit of a Roman Legion)

3. a group of people having approximately the same age

  Familiarity information: COHORT used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COHORT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A company of companions or supporters

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("cohort" is a kind of...):

company (a social gathering of guests or companions)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A band of warriors (originally a unit of a Roman Legion)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("cohort" is a kind of...):

band; circle; lot; set (an unofficial association of people or groups)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A group of people having approximately the same age

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

age bracket; age group; cohort

Hypernyms ("cohort" is a kind of...):

people ((plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cohort"):

aged; elderly (people who are old collectively)

young; youth (young people collectively)

 Context examples 

The linear correction formula uses population-based data obtained and validated using a large cohort of subjects.

(JTcLC - Linear Correction Formula, NCI Thesaurus)

In medicine, a cohort is a group that is part of a clinical trial or study and is observed over a period of time.

(Cohort, NCI Dictionary)

Prospective, nonrandomized, controlled trials; prospective cohort studies; prospective case series; and cross-sectional studies.

(Level of Evidence II, NCI Dictionary)

A study in which a group or cohort of individuals is followed for a certain length of time or until a specific outcome is reached.

(Nested Case-control Study, NCI Thesaurus)

This study was performed on a sample of sedentary young adults, whose BAT was measured (the largest cohort of its kind to date).

(Increasing the level of physical activity is found not to improve the functioning of brown adipose tissue, University of Granada)

The participants are from an ongoing, prospective cohort study, the Psoriasis Atherosclerosis Cardiometabolic Initiative cohort at NIH.

(Psoriasis therapy linked to reduced coronary inflammation in patients with the skin condition, National Institutes of Health)

In a proof-of-concept study based on five observational cohorts in almost 17,000 participants, researchers scanned 5,000 proteins in a plasma sample taken from each participant.

(Study highlights potential for ‘liquid health check’ to predict disease risk, University of Cambridge)

The study included data from 786 children from the Swedish birth cohort BAMSE, and 248 children from the UK birth cohort MAAS.

(New Approach to Predict Respiratory Allergy in Early Childhood, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The new findings are from a long-term follow-up study of a large cohort of people with hyperthyroidism (mainly Graves’ disease) who were treated with radiation between 1946 and 1964, the Cooperative Thyrotoxicosis Therapy Follow-up Study.

(Long-term increased risk of cancer death following common treatment for hyperthyroidism, National Institutes of Health)

The Nurses' Health Study was begun in 1976 with the establishment of a cohort of 120,700 women aged 30-55 and was principally designed to assess risk factors for breast cancer.

(Nurses' Health Study, NCI Thesaurus)