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gerocomia

gerocomia is the alternative form of gerocomy.

Meaning of gerocomy

Noun

gerocomy (uncountable)

  1. (rare) Medical treatment of the elderly.
    • Among the aristocracy of eighteenth-century Europe, recourse to what is now called gerocomy was in vogue, both in Paris and London, for the rehabilitation of the victims of old age.1978, Benjamin Walker, Encyclopedia of Metaphysical Medicine, Routledge, page 261

Questions about gerocomia

What is gerocomia the alternative form of?
Gerocomia is the alternative form of gerocomy.

Words near gerocomia in the dictionary

  1. gerns
  2. Gernsbackian
  3. Gernsheim
  4. Gero
  5. gero-
  6. gerocomia
  7. gerocomy
  8. geroconversion
  9. gerodontics
  10. gerodontology
  11. geroff

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