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chronological age
noun
- the number of years a person has lived, especially when used as a standard against which to measure behavior, intelligence, etc.
Example Sentences
Higher clock values indicate that someone’s biological age is greater than their chronological age.
Biological age can be influenced by environmental factors such as smoking or diet, thus deviating from the chronological age that is calculated using the date of birth.
Researchers say another issue with this and other trials is how chronological age and biological age might affect implications for a trial's design and its results.
A cell with longer telomeres is functionally younger than a cell with short telomeres, meaning that two people with the same chronological age could have different biological ages depending on the length of their telomeres.
In other words, the stress of pregnancy may have caused their biological age to increase faster than their chronological age.
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