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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The science of extreme old age or senility; especially, the doctrine of the correlations between nostologic stages of one organism and the adult stages of aberrant or degraded forms of other organisms belonging to the same group.
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- noun The study of
senility ;gerontology
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pavonine commented on the word nostology
the science of caring for the elderly
November 25, 2007