cohort
cohort
Definition
co·hort (kō′hôrt′)
noun
- an ancient Roman military unit of 300-600 men, constituting one tenth of a legion
- a band of soldiers
- any group or band
- an associate, colleague, or supporter one of the mayor's cohorts
- a conspirator or accomplice
- a subgroup sharing a common factor in a statistical survey, as age or income level
Etymology: ME < L cohors, enclosure, enclosed company, hence, retinue, crowd < co-, co- + IE *ĝhṛtis, a gathering < base *ĝher-, to grasp, enclose > yard
cohort
Synonyms
cohort
n.
cohort
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- diplomate: A pilot cohort of 150 mental health diplomates was recruited the previous year and with whom panel recruitment and retention strategies have been developed.
- trainee: Work is initiated with each cohort of trainees during effective learning seminars and workshops.
- student: The first cohort of dental students will begin their training in the Autumn of 2007.
- entrant: The first cohort of entrants will embark on their studies in October.
- patient: We recently reviewed a cohort of patients seen 10 years ago in our unit - " the class of 1988 " .
- smoker: The model was validated by applying to cohorts without lung cancer excess and to cohorts of smokers and non smokers.
Converse of object
- comprise: The cohort comprised those at high risk of future cardiovascular events, with a history of cardiovascular disease or diabetes.
Adjective modifier
- population-based: A new US study gives good information about urinary and sexual function in a large population-based cohort of men [ 1 ] .
- generational: Smith comes from a much later generational cohort and stands in a different political tradition from Kiernan.
- hypothetical: One hypothetical cohort was screened for cancer until a predetermined age, representing the base case.
- successive: Emerging evidence from Denmark suggests a decline in semen quality in successive birth cohorts.
- prospective: This is a prospective cohort of persons aged 65 or older in 1982.
- longitudinal: In the longitudinal cohorts, the rate of change was determined by linear regression.
Modifies a noun
- study: The cohort study selected for analysis involved 347 patients.
- cull: BSE compensation - cohort cull or BSE off spring?
Noun used with modifier
- cdhp: Hospital inpatient stay the cdhp cohort 's year two to.
- graduating: Consequently, at the time of the visit some programs were new and still had not produced a graduating cohort.
- hmo: Effective in improving had access to the hmo cohort.
- birth: For example, the birth cohort of 1900 refers to people born in that year.
- inception: An inception cohort of 1010 patients with RA attending rheumatology clinics was followed for a median of 11.4 years.
