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10 letters · 13 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun the branch of medical science that deals with diseases and problems specific to old people
originFrom Ancient Greek γῆρας (gêras, “old age”) (see γέρων (gérōn)) + ἰατρός (iatrós, “physician”); coined in English in 1909 by Ignatz L. Nascher in the New York Medical Journal on the model of pediatrics; correct formation would be gerontiatrics. Compare gerontology.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- geriatric 12
- agrestic 11
- cigarets 11
- ergastic 11
- irrigates 10
- criteria 10
- erratics 10
- cagiest 10
- cigaret 10
- gastric 10
- tragics 10
- irrigate 9