pack-year

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pack-year

Alternative forms

pack year

Noun

pack-year (plural pack-years)

(medicine, smoking) A unit for estimating the number of cigarettes a person has smoked previously; it is calculated by multiplying the average number of packs (each containing 20 cigarettes) the person smokes per day by the number of years the person has smoked.

Synonyms

PY, py (initialisms)

Translations

unit for measuring the number of cigarettes a person has smoked previously

French: paquet-année m
German: Packungsjahr n
Hungarian: csomagév, dobozév
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Romanian: pachet-an n
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