Synonyms for life expectancy
life ex·pectan·cy

Princeton's WordNet

1. life expectancynoun

   an expected time to live as calculated on the basis of statistical probabilities

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1. • Anticipation

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1. Nora Volkow:

   It is distressing to see a continuing negative impact of drug overdose on the life expectancy of Americans. These deaths often occur in young adults and therefore represent a tragically high number of years of life lost and devastating impact on individuals, families, and communities, we have the science and the tools available to help us reverse this trend and reduce the number of overdose deaths in this country. But these tools are not being used effectively.

2. Naho Morisaki:

   This may also affect Japanese life expectancy.

3. Ashish Shah:

   If you don't have any other medical problems, your life expectancy comes back almost to normal.

4. Ellen Meara:

   If you go back far enough in the 1980s, we compared much more favorably in life expectancy with other countries, and gradually over time they improved more than the U.S., we have to look to see what we are doing or have been doing differently since the 1980s -- it's not like we can't achieve what other countries have.

5. Tina Cheng:

   It's true we can't really predict what comes next, but we need to be thinking about it and where are we going, the take home message here is that pediatric research has led to improved life expectancy and there are emerging diseases and issues we need to combat. We just want to start the conversation.