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Age (1)
Age (1) - the duration of a period of time from the moment of birth to the present or to some other specific moment in time; usually in statistics it is determined by the number of years passed on the last birthday.
Allocate age (1):
- Biological (synonym: anatomical and physiological age) - established by the totality of adaptive capabilities and functional, structural, regulatory and metabolic characteristics of the body;
- Calendar (synonym: chronological age) - established by a known date of birth;
- Bone - assessed by the state of the bone skeleton of the object under study, mainly by X-ray data, which are compared with the average data on the timing of the development and formation of ossification nuclei, etc.;
- Morphological (synonym: somatic age) - determined by morphological characteristics: body height and weight, the degree of ossification of the skeleton, the condition of the teeth, the development of secondary sexual characteristics, the condition of the hairline, the degree of wrinkling and skin elasticity, etc.;
- Draft - the age established by law, upon reaching which the male population must be conscripted to perform compulsory military service;
- Psychic Binet-Simon (synonym for Binet-Simon mental age) - the level of mental development of a child established on the basis of experimental psychological examination using Binet-Simon tests.
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