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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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  • the science of caring for the elderly

    November 25, 2007