تعريف geriatrics في الإنجليزية الإنجليزية القاموس.
The branch of medicine that focuses on health promotion and the prevention and treatment of disease and disability in later life. The term itself can be distinguished from gerontology, which is the study of the aging process itself
Scientific and medical disciplines, respectively, concerned with all aspects of health and disease in the elderly and with the normal aging process. Gerontology is concerned primarily with the changes that occur between maturity and death and with the factors that influence these changes. It addresses the social and economic effects of an aging population and the physiological and psychological aspects of aging to learn about the aging process and possibly minimize disabilities. Geriatrics deals with prevention and treatment of diseases once assumed to be inevitable in the elderly. See also aging
Geriatric is used to describe things relating to the illnesses and medical care of old people. There is a question mark over the future of geriatric care The geriatric patients will be moved out
disapproval If you describe someone as a geriatric, you are implying that they are old and that their mental or physical condition is poor. This use could cause offence. He will complain about having to spend time with such a boring bunch of geriatrics. how can it be acceptable to have a load of geriatric judges deciding what should happen?
geriatrics
الواصلة
ge·ri·at·rics
التركية النطق
ceriätrîks
النطق
/ˌʤerēˈatrəks/ /ˌʤɛriːˈætrɪks/
علم أصول الكلمات
() From Ancient Greek γῆρας (gēras, “old age”) + ἰατρός (iatros, “physician”).