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Definition of Decennia
1. decennium [n] - See also: decennium
Lexicographical Neighbors of Decennia
Literary usage of Decennia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Elements of Vital Statistics by Arthur Newsholme (1889)
"These are shown for four decennia in the following table from Dr. Ogle's Supplement
to the 45th Annual Report of the Registrar- General :— Annual Mortality ..."
2. Archives of the Public Health Laboratory of the University of Manchester by University of Manchester, A. Sheridan Deléphine (1906)
"On the Construction of Life-Tables, and on Their Application to a Comparison of
the Mortality from Phthisis in England and Wales, during the decennia ..."
3. Diseases of the nervous system, their prevalence and pathology by Julius Althaus (1877)
"... impression that paralysis has increased in fatality during the last decennia,
to be correct, not only relatively to the mortality from nervous diseases, ..."
4. The Dublin Journal of Medical Science (1898)
"Regarding diphtheria Dr. Tatham remarks:— "The annual rate of mortality from
diphtheria, which in the two preceding decennia had fallen from 185 per million ..."
5. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1891)
"The vital statistics of the tropical armies during the last decennia are in
flagrant contradiction of the conclusion drawn before 1860 ..."
6. Third International Congress of Dermatology held in the examination hall of edited by John James Pringle (1898)
"In chorea the chief incidence is in the first and second decennia, the stress
falling a little earlier than in articular rheumatism. ..."
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