old age - a late time of life; old age is not for sissies; he's showing his years; age hasn't slowed him down at all; a beard white with eld; on the brink of geezerhood. eld, geezerhood, years, age. time of life - a period of time during which a person is normally in a particular life state. mid-sixties, sixties - the time of life between 60 and 70. mid-seventies, seventies - the time of life between 70 and 80.
Temperature / Fever. Normal axillary (under the arm) temperature ranges from 97.5 to 99.3 degrees Fahrenheit (36.5 to 37.4 degrees Celsius)*. Taking a rectal temperature. Normal rectal temperature is 100.2 degrees Fahrenheit or less (37.9 degrees Celsius or less)*. Before taking your baby's axillary temperature, make sure the area under the arm is dry. 2  Insert the end of the thermometer under your baby's arm and hold his/her arm snugly against his/her body. 3  Wait five minutes or until the electronic thermometer beeps before removing. 4  Use only a blunt tipped rectal thermometer.
Normal Body Temperature : Rethinking the normal human body temperature. The 98.6Â° F normal benchmark for body temperature comes to us from Dr. Carl Wunderlich, a 19th-century German physician who collected and analyzed over a million armpit temperatures for 25,000 patients.