geratology

geratology
geratologic /jer'euh tl oj"ik/, geratologous /jer'euh tol"euh geuhs/, adj.
/jer'euh tol"euh jee/, n. Biol.
the study of the diminution or decline of life, as in an individual animal or a species approaching extinction.
[1880-85; gerat- (erroneously taken as the s. of Gk gêras old age) + -O- + -LOGY]

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