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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the branch of medical science that deals with diseases and problems specific to old people [syn: geriatrics, gerontology]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary Date: 1903 the comprehensive study of aging and the problems of the aged — compare geriatric 1 • gerontological also gerontologic adjective • gerontologist noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. the scientific study of old age, the process of ageing, and the special problems of old people. Derivatives: gerontological adj. gerontologist n. Etymology: Gk geron -ontos old man + -LOGY

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Gerontology is the study of the process by which we get old, how our bodies change, and the problems that old people have.