Re: The Origin of the Term "Anti-Aging" ?

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From: Bob
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2003 17:45

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On 7 Feb 2003 20:43:44 -0800, lagavril@midway.uchicago.edu (Leonid
Gavrilov) wrote:

>Greetings,
>
>I wonder when the term "anti-aging" was first used in scientific
>publications, and in the lay literature ?
>
>Who coined this term ?
>
>Is this term listed in any dictionary or encyclopedia ?
>

It's in my little Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (1983), simply in a
list of "obvious" anti... words. So they don't give any info on it.

Oxford English Dictionary is usually good at word histories; available
in many libraries.

bob

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