gerontic

comparative more gerontic · superlative most gerontic

1. Of or pertaining to old age or the elderly.

   previously there had been gerontic oligarchy

   2003, Maurice Cowling, Religion and Public Doctrine in Modern England, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 19

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   The gerontic population of the U.S., those of 65 and over, numbered 3.1 million in 1900.

   1982, Prisca von Dorotka Bagnell, Gerontology and Geriatrics Collections, Haworth Press, →ISBN, page 5

   Academic staff from schools of nursing across Australia were asked to contribute information about their current funded research in gerontic nursing, and also to provide their thoughts on what issues future research projects within gerontic nursing should address.

   2004, Rhonda Nay, Sally Garratt, Nursing Older People: Issues and Innovations, Elsevier Australia, →ISBN, page 340

2. biologyOf or pertaining to senescent animals or plants.

   Then the gerontic or senescent portion is seen, recognizable by an increasing simplicity, comparable to that of the neanic shell but retrogressive rather than progressive in the assumption of characters.

   2004, Richa Arora, Encyclopaedia of Evolutionary Biology, Anmol Publications PVT, →ISBN, page 139