geriatrics

About 0.62 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The branch of medicine that focuses on health promotion and the prevention and treatment of disease and disability in later life. The term itself can be distinguished from gerontology, which is the study of the aging process itself.
2. noun plural of geriatric

Similar words

gerontology cgs geratology geropsychology gerontopsychiatry psychogerontology psychogerontologist geropsychiatry gerodontology geratologist

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Word family

geriatric