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- noun (Med.) Same as
orthopedics .
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- noun Archaic form of
orthopedics .
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Examples
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“Do they give lectures on orthopedy and intellectual gymnastics?” asked Merlin.
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All the bodily defects and deformities that orthopedy treats, give but a feeble idea of the humps, the tortuosities, the dislocations we have inflicted upon ourselves in order to depart from simple common sense; and at our own expense we learn that one does not deform himself with impunity.
The Simple Life Charles Wagner
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There cobblers lecture on orthopedy (whatsoever that may be) because they cannot sell their shoes; and poets on Æsthetics (whatsoever that may be) because they cannot sell their poetry.
The Water-Babies A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby Charles Kingsley 1847
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"Do they give lectures on orthopedy and intellectual gymnastics?" asked Merlin.
A Distinguished Provincial at Paris Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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"Do they give lectures on orthopedy and intellectual gymnastics?" asked Merlin.
Lost Illusions Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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Integrating information from physics, chemistry, and the biological sciences, presents a comprehensive survey of surface phenomena in living bodies for readers at an advanced undergraduate or higher level in medicine, dentistry, pathology, and orthopedy.
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