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Relating to the old
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geriatric
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Word definitions for geriatric in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES geriatric/veterinary/tropical etc medicine (= medical study relating to specific groups or types of illness ) ▪ Advances have been made in veterinary medicine, so that our pets are living longer, healthier lives. ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Of or pertaining to the elderly. 2 Of or pertaining to geriatrics. n. (context slang English) An old person.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. of or relating to the aged; "geriatric disorder" of or relating to or practicing geriatrics; "geriatric hospital" [syn: gerontological ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1909, formed in English from Greek geras , geros "old age" (from PIE root *gere- "to grow old" (see gerontology ) + iatrikos "of a physician," from iatros (see -iatric ).
Usage examples of geriatric.
Some doors and windows were real, and real weather blew like a natural broom through the geriatric ward.
Hudlar Project, and who may be concerned with the ethical position, let me assure you that the patient on which we will be operating today, its fellows in the FROB ward, and all the other geriatric and pre-geriatric cases waiting in great distress on the home world, are all candidates for elective surgery.
This cackle of geriatric cynicism ill became such a creature made for pleasure as Jeanne, but was pox not the emblematic fate of a creature made for pleasure and the price you paid for the atrocious mixture of corruption and innocence this child of the sun brought with her from the Antilles?
But the geriatric feline that now emerged from a clump of something odorous beneath the cryptomeria had snow all over his hairy eaves.
God, among the dolls half loved to death and now scattered about a room whose present owner had consecrated it to a geriatric cosiness.
Plus some better geriatric treatment-get rid of some of those wrinkles.
The better diet, a certain amount of booze, plus the geriatric jabs worked their wonders.
I went to the stage door, where its geriatric guardian was reading a holo-horror comic.
There are plans to build a big hospital and medical center here, with emphasis on geriatric care, and probably a medical school.
I can tell you that on the basis of the bare outline to be in charge of a huge geriatric medical center and be in on it from the ground-breaking ceremonies, and not have to get involved in fund raising, at least for many years to come these dudes really salivated, Finn.
But your geriatric medical complex will never be first class under their guidance.
Remember what the vet said, at your age the geriatric cat food will help keep you alive.
Walking in the same careful feet-wide-apart way, a half-filled glass of water in one hand and the blood-soaked square of african in the other, Lisey made her way to the dusty booksnake and sat down there, waiting to see what three geriatric Excedrin might do for her pain.
He had remained alive by staying in zero gravity and indulging in sophisticated geriatric treatments that were not available on the surface.
Earth geriatric treatments, but the secret to his immense age was supposedly that the weightlessness vastly reduced the strain on his fragile body.