English dictionary · adj
geriatric
Relating to the elderly.
Meaning and definitions
- Relating to the elderly.
- Elderly, old.
- Relating to geriatrics.
Connected roots
- -iatry
healing, medicine
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- psychiatric
Of, or relating to, psychiatry.
- psychiatry
the study and treatment of mental illness
- podiatry
Chiropody.
- podiatric
Of or pertaining to podiatry, the medical specialty concerned with the foot
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