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say it: jer-ee-A-triks
geriatrics is a noun meaning "the branch of medical science that deals with diseases and problems specific to old people". It is pronounced /ˌdʒɛɹiˈætɹɪks/ — jer-ee-A-triks. It carries one recorded sense.
the branch of medical science that deals with diseases and problems specific to old people
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for geriatrics come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.