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- noun medicine The branch of medicine which deals with the prevention and correction of
deformities in bodies;orthopedics .
Etymologies
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ortho- + pedia. From Ancient Greek ὀρθός (orthos, "correction") combined with παῖς (pais, "child"). See also orthopedic.
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Materia medica, orthopedia, medical analysis, general surgery, bacteriology, therapeutics and anæsthesia no longer mere words, whose very sound made me weak with dismay; but terms descriptive of new ways in which I can help weak and suffering babyhood.
'Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands Eliot H. Robinson
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