EXPECTATION OF LIFE
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By Daniel Lyons
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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In life insurance, the length of time that a person of a given age and in good health may be expected to live.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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More exactly, the probable life, or the number of years more which a person of given age has an even chance of living. According to the Carlisle Table, a person twenty years old has an even chance of living 44*8 years more.
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The mean or average duration of life (q.v.).
By Henry Percy Smith
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Platidiam
- An inorganic water-soluble platinum complex. After undergoing hydrolysis, it reacts DNA produce both intra interstrand crosslinks. These crosslinks appear to impair replication and transcription of DNA. The cytotoxicity cisplatin correlates with cellular arrest in G2 phase cell cycle.