| 单词 | geriatrics |
| 释义 | geriatrics (once / 66401 pages) n If you become a doctor who specializes in geriatrics, your patients will mainly be elderly people. The medical branch of geriatrics focuses on the health issues and diseases of old age. A doctor who specializes in this kind of medicine might be called a geriatric physician or a geriatrician. Geriatrics was originally based on the word pediatrics, the medical care of children, and comes from the Greek geron, which means "old age" or "old man." WORD FAMILYgeriatric: geriatrician, geriatrics+/geriatrician: geriatricians USAGE EXAMPLESNearly one-third of people age 51 and older experience fatigue, according to a 2010 study in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. Washington Post(Dec 16, 2016) He was the subject of experiments on geriatrics and microgravity. Seattle Times(Dec 08, 2016) My geriatrics were "paid contactors" but they were always messing up their tax returns. BBC(Dec 06, 2016) n the branch of medical science that deals with diseases and problems specific to old people Syn|Hyper gerontology medical specialty, medicine the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques |
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