In a manner showing old age; in the way that elderly or aged things do.
Adverbial form created by adding '-ly' to the adjective 'gerate,' following standard English word-formation patterns for creating manner adverbs.
The existence of this adverb shows how English lets scientists build entire word families from single roots—'gerately' means 'in an aging way,' which sounds odd but makes perfect sense in medical contexts.
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