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Orthopedist   /ˌɔrθəpˈidəst/   Listen
Orthopedist

noun
1.
A specialist in correcting deformities of the skeletal system (especially in children).  Synonym: orthopaedist.






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"Orthopedist" Quotes from Famous Books



... "flat-footed" patients will be to the point. One woman, the young mother of a family, came to me for a nervous trouble. Besides this, she had suffered for seven or eight years from severe pains in her feet and had been compelled to wear specially made shoes prescribed by a Chicago orthopedist. The shoes, however, did not seem to lessen the pain. After an ordinary day's occupation, she could not even walk across the floor at dinner-time. A walk of two blocks would incapacitate her for many ...
— Outwitting Our Nerves - A Primer of Psychotherapy • Josephine A. Jackson and Helen M. Salisbury



Words linked to "Orthopedist" :   orthopedics, medical specialist, specialist, orthopaedist



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