gerontology
noun
Example Sentences
San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Aug. 2022 The gerontology community has been talking along these lines for 10 to 20 years. Viviane Callier, Quanta Magazine, 8 Aug. 2022 Guinness World Records said they were saddened to hear of Tanaka's passing, and said the news of her death had been confirmed by senior gerontology consultant Robert Young, who also helped confirm her record as the oldest person alive back in 2019. Emiko Jozuka, CNN, 25 Apr. 2022 There are several reasons for the rise of autumnal athleticism, said Jennifer Ailshire, an associate professor of gerontology at USC. Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2022 Solis’s first-semester clinical schedule included the Tewksbury Hospital shift on Wednesdays from 3-11 p.m. focused on gerontology and psychology. Greg Levinsky, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Jan. 2022 Morrie Markoff comes in three years behind the leader of the pack, according to an internet gerontology site. Steve Lopez Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2022 De la Fuente García's death was confirmed by Guinness World Records' senior gerontology consultant Robert Young, their website says. Greta Bjornson, PEOPLE.com, 19 Jan. 2022 In gerontology, three years might as well be a century. Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021 See More Word History
borrowed from French gérontologie, from géronto- geronto- + -logie -logy
Note: The French word was apparently introduced by Élie metchnikoff in Études sur la nature humaine: essai de philosophie optimiste (Paris, 1903), p. 386: "Il nous parait très probable que l'étude scientifique de la vieillesse et de la mort qui devra constituer deux branches de la science, la Gérontologie et la Tanatologie, amènera de grandes modifications dans la marche de la période avancée de la vie." ("It appears very likely to us that the scientific study of old age and death that will have to constitute two branches of science, gerontology and thanatology, will bring about great changes in the course of the last period of life.") The term appears as gerontologija in the corresponding Russian text (Ètjudy o prirodě čelověka [Moscow, 1904], p. 214).
1903, in the meaning defined above
Medical Definition
gerontology
noun