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gerontotherapeutics
1. The science concerned with treatment of the aged.
2. Therapeutic management of aging persons designed to retard and prevent the development of many of the aspects of senescence [the process or condition of growing old, especially the condition resulting from the transitions and accumulations of the deleterious aging processes].
This entry is located in the following units: gero-, geri-, ger-, geronto-, geront- (page 3) -ics, -tics [-ac after i] (page 18)