geriatric
IPA: dʒɛriˈætrɪk
noun
- (slang) An old person.
adjective
- Relating to the elderly.
- Elderly, old.
- Relating to geriatrics.
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Examples of "geriatric" in Sentences
- UC research shows rapid decline in geriatric medicine studies
- Barack Obama has WON and John McWalkingcane is going DOWN in geriatric defeat in November!!!
- In the mean time, remember one of our favorite aphorisms in geriatric medicine: The hospital is no place for sick people.
- Just 468 first-year fellowships in geriatric medicine were available in the 2006 – 2007 academic year; nonetheless, almost half of them went unfilled.
- Each day, when he is in residence in the Whipstick, he sets out on what he calls his "geriatric jog", and then extends that exercise regime into a ramble.
- A test for what is called gait speed is emerging in geriatric research as a validated measure of frailty in elderly people and a predictor of physical and cognitive health.
- He seems to understand when patients are about to die, 'said Dr. David Dosa, an expert in geriatric care who described the phenomenon in the New England Journal of Medicine.
- The daughter of a Virginia coal mine owner, she earned a doctorate in geriatric care and battled her way up in politics starting as a state legislator from New Bern before rising to lieutenant governor.
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