Of, relating to, or characteristic of old age or the process of aging.
From Greek 'geras' (old age) combined with the suffix '-atic,' which creates adjectives describing conditions or characteristics. This is a variant form of 'geriatric' used in older medical texts.
You might notice 'geratic' and 'geriatric' look similar—they actually come from the same root, but 'geratic' is the older English form that gradually lost popularity as doctors preferred the Latin-based 'geriatric.'
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