Antonyms for geriatric
ˌdʒɛr iˈæ trɪk, ˌdʒɪər-geri·atric

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1. geriatricadjective

   of or relating to the aged

   "geriatric disorder"

   Synonyms:
   gerontological

2. geriatric, gerontologicaladjective

   of or relating to or practicing geriatrics

   "geriatric hospital"

   Synonyms:
   gerontological

Editors ContributionRate these antonyms:5.0 / 2 votes

1. pediatrician

   relating to the medical care and treatment of old people

   a new geriatric centre is due to open later this month.

   Submitted by rinat on June 11, 2017  

How to use geriatric in a sentence?

1. Harold Macmillan:

   Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.

2. Scott Dixon:

   I was joking it was the geriatric podium.

3. Horace Rumpole:

   There's no pleasure on earth that's worth sacrificing for the sake of an extra five years in the geriatric ward of the Sunset Old People's Home, Weston-Super-Mare.

4. Douglas Scharre:

   I spend a lot of my time in the memory disorder clinic seeing geriatric patients and taking people off medications, mostly ones that have anticholinergic properties, and many times there can be another drug out there that has less anticholinergic impact or is non-anticholinergic that may work, some of the medications that they list in the study may be quite critical and important and are well worth the person taking for their seizures or their psychosis, and so it's a risk-benefit discussion.

5. Jennifer Garrison:

   When a woman is in her late 20s or early 30s, the rest of her tissue is functioning at peak performance, but her ovaries are already showing overt signs of aging, yet most women learn about their ovaries and ovarian function when they go to use them for the first time and find out they're geriatric.

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