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Meaning of "pack-year" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PACK-YEAR

pack-year


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PACK-YEAR

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Pack-Year is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PACK-YEAR MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of pack-year in the English dictionary

The definition of pack-year in the dictionary is a measure of the amount of cigarettes a person has smoked over an extended period, equal to one packet of 20 every day for one year.



WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PACK-YEAR

pack drill · pack horse · pack ice · pack in · pack of lies · pack one´s bags · pack rat · pack shot · pack trail · pack up · packability · packable · package · package deal · package holiday · package policy · package store · package tour · packager · packaging

WORDS THAT END LIKE PACK-YEAR

academic year · calendar year · financial year · first year · fiscal year · five-year · gap year · Goodyear · great year · half-year · leap year · lunar year · off year · school year · senior year · sixth year · solar year · tax year · year · yesteryear

Synonyms and antonyms of pack-year in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «pack-year» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF PACK-YEAR

Find out the translation of pack-year to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of pack-year from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «pack-year» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

包年
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

paquete - año
570 millions of speakers
en

English

pack-year
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

पैक साल
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

حزمة من العمر
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

Пакет - год
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

pack- ano
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

প্যাক বছর
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

Pack ans
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Pek tahun
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Packung Jahres
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

パック歳
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

팩 년
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Paket taun
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

gói năm
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

பேக் ஆண்டு
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

पॅक-साल
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

paket-yıl
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

pack- anno
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

pack- rok
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

Пакет- рік
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

pachet de ani
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πακέτο-έτος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

pack - jaar
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

pack- år
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

pakke- år
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of pack-year

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PACK-YEAR»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about pack-year

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PACK-YEAR»

Discover the use of pack-year in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to pack-year and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
ICT Framework Solutions Teacher Support Pack Year 8
This suite of straightforward, easy to manage suite of resources comprises a Student Book and Teacher Support Pack and CD-ROM for each of years 7, 8 and 9.
Stephen Doyle, 2004
2
Modern Epidemiology
... of cigarettes smoked, with one pack-year equal to the product of 20 cigarettes per pack and 365 days, or 7,300 cigarettes. Cumulative indices of exposure and time- weighted measures of average intensity of exposure are both popular ...
Kenneth J. Rothman, Sander Greenland, Timothy L. Lash, 2008
3
Textbook
The ideal resource to stimulate your pupils' numerical thinking. A child-friendly textbook which reinforces fluency in number facts and provides problem-solving activities.
Scottish Primary Mathematics Group, Scottish Primary Mathematics Group Staff Scottish Primary Mathematics Group John T Blair, 2000
4
Alphabet Pack: Year 1
For each letter, the book contains: letter modelling and handwriting directions practice page letter activity page focusing on letter recognition and phonics word list page which includes an alphabet jingle and space for students to write ...
‎1995
5
Principles of Gender-Specific Medicine
For the men, they found the excess decline in lung function attributable to smoking was 6.3 ml/pack-year but for women was significantly higher at 7.4 ml/ pack-year. In a comparable study of 4814 individuals, the Glostrup Population Study ...
Marianne J. Legato, 2009
6
Measurement Error and Misclassification in Statistics and ...
The cigarette pack-year, defined as the number of years of smoking twenty cigarettes a day, is used as the exposure variable. For the purposes of illustration we consider only the data on self-reported current or former smokers, i.e., those who ...
Paul Gustafson, 2003
7
Professional Practice in Paramedic, Emergency and Urgent Care
A pack year history of greater than 15 increases the patient's risk of long term lung disease and could be a valuable clue in the history taking. It is also important to note if a patient does not smoke. If so, have they ever smoked, how much and ...
Valerie Nixon, 2013
8
Drugs in Use: Case Studies for Pharmacists and Prescribers
Mr LT's pack-year history is 52 years. Lifetime smoking exposure is quantified in ' pack years', where one 'pack year' is 20 cigarettes smoked per day for 1 year. Therefore: Number of pack years : (Number of cigarettes smoked per dayx Number ...
Linda J. Dodds, 2013
9
Competition and the financial impact of the proposed tobacco ...
... Demand Trend Growth Rate -0.6% Demand Elasticity -0.4 Settlement Induced Advertising and Legal Cost Savings (per pack) $0.05 New Budget Bill Excise Tax (per pack): Year: 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002+ ---- ---- ---- 0.10 0.10 0.15 ...
10
Lung Cancer
Doctors measure total tobacco use by pack-year. Pack-year is a term used to describe the number of cigarettes a person has smoked over time. One pack— year is defined as 20 manufactured cigarettes (one pack) smoked per day for one  ...
Stephen Falk, Chris Williams, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PACK-YEAR»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term pack-year is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Presence St. Joseph Medical Center offers free lung screenings
“They have to be what's called a 30 pack-year smoker - someone who has smoked at least a pack a day for 30 years or the equivalent, or 2 ... «The Herald-News, Jul 15»
2
For the war against oral cancer, what's in your arsenal?
It was always the “Marlboro man”—that guy who was older, drank alcohol frequently, and had a smoking pack-year history that was two or three ... «Dentistry IQ, Jul 15»
3
Routine health screenings beneficial to men's health
... men ages 55 to 74 years old who currently smoke, have a 30 pack-year smoking history or who have quit the habit within the last 15 years. «Lexington Herald Leader, Jul 15»
4
Italy joins China's battle against lung cancer
... lung cancer in people with high risk of the disease aged 50-74, who have a 20 pack-year smoking history, or had quit within the past 5 years. «Shanghai Daily, Jul 15»
5
Mercy Health earns Lung Cancer Screening Center designation …
... United States Preventive Services Task Force recommended screening adults aged 55 to 80 years who have a 30 pack-year smoking history ... «The Clermont Sun, Jul 15»
6
Cancer detected earlier with simple scans
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends annual lung cancer screenings for adults between the ages of 55 and 80 who have a 30 pack-year ... «Ventura County Star, Jul 15»
7
Hospital Offers Lung Cancer Screening Program
Those eligible for lung cancer screening must be between the ages of 55 and 77, and be current or former smokers with at least a 30-pack-year ... «The Pottstown Post, Jul 15»
8
Your Risk of Heart Failure Can Fall to Normal if You Quit Smoking Now
A pack-year is the equivalent of smoking a pack of cigarettes a day for a year. Someone who smokes two packs a day racks up two pack-years. «Youth Health Magzine, Jun 15»
9
British American Tobacco Group plc Faces £5.5bn Fine: Is BP plc A …
(A pack-year is equivalent to smoking one pack of 20 cigarettes every day for a year.) Will BAT have to pay? This isn't the first time Big Tobacco ... «Yahoo Finance UK, Jun 15»
10
Clinical, behavioral factors predict lung cancer recurrence
Other significant predictors included recurrence of another cancer type (HR = 4.8; 95% CI, 2.2-10.6) and pack-year smoking history (HR for ... «Healio, May 15»
REFERENCE
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