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Geriatrics is the branch of medicine that treats and cares for old people — illness, medicines, hospitals, and staying able to live day to day. It is the doctor’s side of , not the whole science of .
Geriatrics is老年醫學是 the branch of medicine醫學的一個分支 that treats and cares for old people負責治療和照顧老年人 — illness, medicines, hospitals, and staying able to live day to day包括疾病、藥物、住院，以及維持日常生活能力. It is它是 the doctor's side of ageing老化這件事屬於醫療的那一面, not the whole science of ageing而不是老化整體的科學研究。
The word was coined in English in 1909 by Ignatz L. Nascher, on the model of pediatrics (the medicine of children). The Greek pieces are γῆρας (gêras, “old age”) and ἰατρός (iatrós, “physician”). The neater Greek shape would have been gerontiatrics; geriatrics is the word we actually got.
The word was coined in English in 1909這個字是1909年 by Ignatz L. Nascher由伊格納茲．納舍 in English創造的英文詞, on the model of pediatrics仿照pediatrics（小兒科） (the medicine of children)（兒童的醫學）這個模式. The Greek pieces are希臘字根是 γῆρας (gêras, “old age”)γῆρας（意思是「老年」） and ἰατρός (iatrós, “physician”)和ἰατρός（意思是「醫生」）. The neater Greek shape would have been比較工整的希臘拼法應該會是 gerontiatricsgerontiatrics; geriatrics is但geriatrics才是 the word we actually got我們實際使用的字。
Gerontology is the wider scientific study of old age; geriatrics is the medical treatment.
Gerontology is老年學是 the wider scientific study of old age對老化更廣泛的科學研究; geriatrics is而geriatrics老年醫學 the medical treatment則是醫療照護的部分。
Formal, used in hospital names: a geriatrics ward, the department of geriatrics. It names the subject, not the people themselves.
Formal正式用詞, used in hospital names用在醫院的名稱裡: a geriatrics ward老年醫學病房, the department of geriatrics老年醫學科. It names the subject它指的是這個學科, not the people themselves而不是那些老年人本身。
組成From Ancient Greek γῆρας (gêras, “old age”) + ἰατρός (iatrós, “physician”); coined in 1909 by Ignatz L. Nascher on the model of pediatrics. A “correcter” Greek formation would be gerontiatrics.
同家族的字
- pediatricsthe child-medicine word geriatrics was modelled on
- geriatricthe matching adjective
- geriatricianthe doctor who works in this field
- gerontologysame Greek ‘old age’ family; that word is the wider study, not the hospital specialty
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
geriatricsnoun詞源 1
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medicinesciencesThe branch of medicine that focuses on health promotion and the prevention and treatment of disease and disability in later life. The term itself can be distinguished from gerontology, which is the study of the aging process itself.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。