He is relatively frail, by today's major league standards, with an undeveloped torso, spaghetti arms and a thin neck.
The BWHHS study respondents were those who were able to attend the interview and medical examination at baseline suggests that they were relatively less frail compared to non-responders.
The attrition analysis indicated that the nonparticipants who were relatively older and frail, had measurements indicating central adiposity and muscle loss.
Both groups were relatively stable in HRQoL over time, which was not expected for a group of such frail older people.
Finally, sometimes regrading is a relatively frail solution; a little careless digging in your garden may produce a new source of leakage just after you have installed a home theater in your basement.
The singer who performed at the Grammy Museum in October was a relatively frail man who looked far older than his 48 years.
Chemotherapy induced toxicity is particularly relevant in NHL as many of the patients are older and relatively frail, and toxicities may lead to treatment interruption, dose reduction, major morbidity necessitating hospitalization, and even treatment-related death.
The increased hip fracture risk in people younger than 80 years using loop diuretics and plain ACE inhibitors, however, may possibly be due to the "more-ill-user effect" as these drugs are frequently issued to relatively frail people with heart failure.
"Officers have to make difficult split-second decisions every day and public safety is their primary consideration". Mrs Robinson, who is now 86, was described in court as "relatively frail" at the time of the incident.
A revealing exception is seen in the European species Triraphis tricolor (Wesmael), whose part grown host mummies are either fixed naked to a tree leaf and emerge rapidly, when they are pale greenish yellow and relatively frail, or fall from the leaf to overwinter on the ground, in which case they are very well-tanned, dark brown and tough (MRS, unpublished data).
