Superager
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Superager is a noun meaning Someone with an advanced biological age who still retains the cognitive function of a younger person.
Meaning
Someone with an advanced biological age who still retains the cognitive function of a younger person.
Example Sentences
What areas of the brains of superagers are activated more than those of ordinary seniors?
Researchers have spent years studying superagers in an attempt to understand what sets the senior citizens apart.
Mr. Markoff soared over the bar of what researchers designate a super-ager — a person over 80 whose brain seems decades younger. And that made his brain highly valuable to research, said Tish Hevel, chief executive of the Brain Donor Project, a nonprofit in Naples, Fla., that is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health.
Word Forms
- superagers
- super-ager
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include super-centenarian, supracentenarian, semisupercentenarian, supercentenarian, superbrain, ultracentenarian.
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