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Definitions: Geriatric |
GeriatricAdjective1. Of or relating to the aged; "geriatric disorder". 2. Of or relating to or practicing geriatrics; "geriatric hospital". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "geriatric" was first used: 1909. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | Pertaining to the treatment of the aged. (references) |
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Synonym: GeriatricSynonym: gerontological (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Age | Adjective: aged; old; elderly, geriatric, senile; matronly, anile; in years; ripe, mellow, run to seed, declining, waning, past one's prime; gray, gray-headed; hoar, hoary; venerable, time-worn, antiquated, passe, effete, decrepit, superannuated; advanced in life, advanced in years; stricken in years; wrinkled, marked withthe crow's foot; having one foot in the grave; doting; (imbecile); like the last of pea time. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Geriatric |
| English words defined with "geriatric": Ketalar, ketamine, ketamine hydrochloride ♦ reactive. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "geriatric": Geriatric Assessment, Geriatric Dentistry, geriatric hospital, Geriatric Nursing, Geriatric Psychiatry, group leader ♦ Homes for the Aged, Housing for the Elderly ♦ nurse aide, NURSE ASSISTANT ♦ PROGRAM AIDE, GROUP WORK. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Geriatric service at the Karolinska Hospital, Sweden] / WHO p.Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by Jean Mohr.. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | These programs will utilize a more intense geriatric approach. (references) | |
It features active case management and varying degrees of geriatric programming. (references) | ||
Caries incidence changes in adulthood and in geriatric populations, and risk and risk indicators may differ due to changes in host and environmental characteristics. (references) | ||
Business | The project involves the construction of a 200 bed center for geriatric, handicapped and respiratory patients. (references) | |
As the population is "graying", there will be a demand for quality geriatric healthcare and living arrangements. (references) | ||
Already, the demand for certain medications like painkillers and antibiotics is growing rapidly while the demand for geriatric drugs is slowly rising as the median age of the Palestinian population increases. (references) | ||
Economic History | Uruguay | Uruguay's growing elderly population is a good market for geriatric equipment and services. (references) |
Travel | New Zealand | The public sector provides free treatment at hospitals for emergency and major problems, including maternity and geriatric care and free dental treatment for those under 18 years of age. (references) |
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| "Geriatric" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 96.89% of the time. "Geriatric" is used about 193 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 96.89% | 187 | 22,491 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.11% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Total | 100.00% | 193 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "geriatric": Geriatric Assessment ♦ Geriatric Dentistry ♦ geriatric hospital ♦ Geriatric Nursing ♦ Geriatric Psychiatry. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "geriatric": geriatric-ing. | |
Ending with "geriatric": psycho-geriatric. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "geriatric"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 老年医学. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | geriatrisk. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | geriatrisch. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مربوطبه پیری . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | geriatrinen, vanhustenhoito-oppiin liittyvä. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | gériatrique (geriatrician), gériatrique. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | geriatrisch. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | γηριατρικός. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | 'ריאטרי. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | geriatrik. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | geriatrico. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 老人病院 (geriatric hospital), 老人病 (geriatric diseases). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ろうじ"びょうい" (geriatric hospital), ろうじ"びょう (geriatric diseases). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 노인성. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eriatricgay geriátrico. (various references) гериатрический. (various references) geriátrico. (various references) geriatrisk. (various references) yaşlıların sağlığı ile ilgili, yaşlı (aged, auld, doddered, elderly, old, old timer, oldie, overaged, senior, senior citizen, stricken in years, tear stained, watery, well on in years), ihtiyar (aged, elderly, grey haired, old, old man, old woman, oldie, oldish, oldster, pater). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | geras. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "geriatric": geriatrician, geriatricians, geriatrics. (additional references) | |
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"Geriatric" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gereatric, Geriadur, geriatic, geriatrica, geriayric, greatrix, Griedrich, guerrieri, ugaritic. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "geriatric" (pronounced je'rēa"trik) |
| 6 | -ē a" t r i k | pediatric, psychiatric. |
| 4 | -t r i k | anthropocentric, barometric, citric, concentric, dissymmetric, eccentric, econometric, egocentric, electric, ethnocentric, gastric, geocentric, geometric, gravimetric, hydroelectric, metric, nitric, obstetric, optometric, parametric, photoelectric, tantric, vitric. |
| 3 | -r i k | alphanumeric, atmospheric, Baldric, barbaric, boric, caloric, choric, cleric, Derrick, esoteric, euphoric, fabric, generic, hemispheric, historic, hyperbaric, hysteric, ionospheric, lyric, mercuric, mesenteric, meteoric, numeric, pinprick, prehistoric, pyrrhic, rubric, satiric, sophomoric, stearic, stratospheric, sulfuric, vampiric. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-g-i-i-r-r-t" | |
-1 letter: criteria, irrigate. | |
-2 letters: cigaret, cirrate, erratic. | |
-3 letters: aigret, airier, artier, cagier, carter, crater, gaiter, garret, garter, grater, iatric, irater, racier, tracer, tragic, triage. | |
-4 letters: airer, areic, cager, carer, caret, carte, cater, ceria, cigar, cirri, citer, crate, crier, erica, grace, grate, great, icier, irate, racer, rater, react, recta, recti, rerig, retag, retia, ricer, targe, tarre. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-g-i-i-r-r-t" | |
+1 letter: geriatrics. | |
+2 letters: gravimetric. | |
+3 letters: geriatrician. | |
+4 letters: ferrimagnetic, geriatricians, incarcerating, prevaricating, reaccrediting, recalibrating, reciprocating, recirculating, recriminating, reincarnating, relubricating, transpiercing. | |
+5 letters: arteriographic, characterizing, counterraiding, intercomparing, microgravities, prefabricating, rearticulating. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 65 72 69 61 74 72 69 63 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. . .-. .. .- - .-. .. -.-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01100101 01110010 01101001 01100001 01110100 01110010 01101001 01100011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G e r i a t r i c |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0065 0072 0069 0061 0074 0072 0069 0063 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)417184756786847569 |
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