vocal adjective (OF THE VOICE) âº relating to or produced by the voice, either in singing or speaking: a piece of vocal music. The six principal roles in this opera have an average vocal range of two octaves. More examples. There was a soft nodule on my vocal cord. Her remarkable vocal range spanned three and a half octaves.
Signs that it might be time for a knee replacement: 1  Your pain persists or recurs over time. 2  Your knee aches during and after exercise. 3  Youâre no longer as mobile as youâd like to be.  Medication and using a cane arenât delivering enough 1  relief. Your knee stiffens up from sitting in a car or a movie theater.  You feel pain in rainy weather.
But, the cost for those extra decades isnât just the cost of the Lipitor and the stent. Itâs also the cost of all the other health care you received because you lived decades longer. If you had died at age 50 from your heart attack, you wouldnât have needed a knee replacement when you were 62 years old. You wouldnât have been treated for prostate cancer when you were 70 years old.