cohort

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In fact, the da Vinci hysterectomy cohort was actually on average $53 less per procedure than the conventional hysterectomies at their facility.

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  1. noun A group or band of people.
  2. noun A companion or associate.
  3. noun A generational group as defined in demographics, statistics, or market research: "The cohort of people aged 30 to 39 . . . were more conservative” (American Demographics).
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  • They reported that the total surgical costs for their cohort was $24,500 for all types of bariatric surgery combined ($26,000 for open surgery and $17,000 for laparoscopic procedures). —  Junkfood Science
  • I recently had the pleasure of being interviewed by Laure Joliet, whom some of you might know as my cohort and contributor over at AT Los Angeles. —  Unplugged
  • Be all that as it may, one may discern that cryonicists as a cohort are not just different from the larger population only in their choice of cryonics over burial/cremation upon death —  amor mundi
  • The first cohort, which is the smallest, is composed of some forty or fifty horsemen, riding "by twos;" their regular formation on the march, but more the uniformity in their dress, arms, and accoutrements, telling them to be soldiers. —  Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco
  • For a moment it seemed as though the cohort was about to drive the whole swarm of the marauders over the sea-wall, and make them pay dear for their night's diversion. —  A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C.
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English, from Old French cohorte, from Latin cohors, cohort-; see gher-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French cohorte = Spanish Portuguese cohorte = Italian coorte = D. G. Danish kohorte = SW. kohort, from Latin cohor(t-)s, a cohort, division of an army, company, train, retinue of attendants, any multitude, properly a multitude inclosed, being the same word as cohor(t-)s, often contr. cor(t-)s, a place inclosed, an inclosure, yard, pen, court, later ult. English court, q. v.
 

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