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Exodus and I assume others of the novel series, although I'm unclear if the word traces back to something in the game Starfire, has the concept of "antigerone treatments", rejuvination.

"Antigerone" must be borrowed from John Wyndham's 1960 Trouble with Lichen.

One of the discoverers of a special property of a particular lichen explains in Trouble with Lichen

Something there was no name for. I called it an antigerone. [...] Anti—against; gerone—age, or more literally, an old man. Nobody seems to mind mixing Latin and Greek roots nowadays, so—antigerone.

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Trouble With Lichen is a book that has stayed in my brain for decades. Perhaps because I read it when I was still discovering SF.

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It is such a vivid story.

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And also a strong female protagonist - which was pretty rare back then.

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Good point!

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