MIDDLE-AGED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does middle-aged mean? 

• MIDDLE-AGED (adjective)
  The adjective MIDDLE-AGED has 1 sense:

1. being roughly between 45 and 65 years old

  Familiarity information: MIDDLE-AGED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MIDDLE-AGED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Being roughly between 45 and 65 years old

Similar:

old ((used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age)

 Context examples 

Although it can occur at all ages, it is more frequently seen in middle-aged adults.

(Chordoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Over 200 young and middle-aged normal-weight or moderately overweight adults were randomly assigned to follow either a calorie restriction diet or their usual diets.

(Moderate calorie restriction in young and middle-aged adults significantly reduces heart and metabolic risk factors independent of weight loss, National Institutes of Health)

Sitting too much is linked to changes in a section of the brain that is critical for memory, according to a preliminary study by UCLA researchers of middle-aged and older adults.

(Sitting Is Bad for Your Brain, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Among middle-aged adults, higher levels of the protein in the blood were also associated with protection from type 2 diabetes.

(New Potential Approach Found to Type 2 Diabetes Treatment, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

It affects mostly middle-aged adults and it is rare in children.

(Epithelial Predominant Pulmonary Blastoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Anyone can get it, but it is most common in middle-aged women.

(Fibromyalgia, NIH: National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases)

It usually occurs in young to middle-aged women.

(Multicystic Mesothelioma, NCI Thesaurus)

Most patients are middle-aged to elderly adults and present with splenomegaly and pancytopenia.

(Hairy cell leukemia, NCI Thesaurus/WHO)

Giant cell tumors usually occur in young and middle-aged adults.

(Giant cell tumor, NCI Dictionary)

GCTs usually occur in young and middle-aged adults.

(GCT, NCI Dictionary)