Usually means: Medical care for older adults.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word geriatrics:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. geriatrics: Merriam-Webster
  2. geriatrics: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. geriatrics: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. geriatrics: Collins English Dictionary
  5. geriatrics: Vocabulary.com
  6. Geriatrics, geriatrics: Wordnik
  7. geriatrics: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. geriatrics: Wiktionary
  9. geriatrics: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. geriatrics: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. geriatrics: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. geriatrics: Dictionary.com
  13. geriatrics: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Geriatrics: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. geriatrics: Rhymezone
  16. geriatrics: FreeDictionary.org
  17. geriatrics: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. geriatrics: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. geriatrics: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. geriatrics: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. geriatrics: Encyclopedia

Medicine (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. geriatrics: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Geriatrics: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Geriatrics: Merck Manuals
  6. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  8. geriatrics: Medical dictionary
  9. Geriatrics: Drug Medical Dictionary

(Note: See geriatric as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (medicine) 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.

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