A medical condition where the skin appears abnormally aged, wrinkled, or degenerative, often appearing much older than the person's actual age.
From Greek 'geron' (old man) + 'derma' (skin). The term combines the root for age with the medical suffix for skin conditions, emerging in dermatology in the 20th century.
Progeria, a famous rapid-aging disease in children, is the extreme version of what geroderma describes—skin that ages decades in just years, showing us that aging is partly written in our skin cells.
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