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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
gerontologist

1941, from gerontology + -ist.

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gerontologist

n. A physician who specializes in gerontology

WordNet
gerontologist

n. a specialist in gerontology [syn: geriatrician]

Usage examples of "gerontologist".

Pius was well known within the Vatican to have lived beyond his normal span due to the ministrations of the Swiss gerontologist Dr.

Vatican to have lived beyond his normal span due to the ministrations of the Swiss gerontologist Dr.

He was perhaps eighty now, maybe ninety, if he had a good gerontologist, and he had been a great concert pianist many years ago.

Administration hospital ward, bleak and white and deathly, badgered by psychiatrists and gerontologists, prodded and tested and questioned by nurses and internes and specialists, a spectacle for visiting officials, newspapermen, article writers, actuaries, lawyers, press agents, theatrical producers, sapped like an old tree torn up by the roots.

Even though I arranged years back for other physicians, expert gerontologists, to check me regularly, with the idea of closing shop sooner if indicated.

We've been told by gerontologists over and over that there is nothing, in theory, to stand in the way of human immortality, but so far not enough attention has been concentrated on this.