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A surgical specialty which utilizes medical, surgical, and physical methods to treat and correct deformities, diseases, and injuries to the skeletal system, its articulations, and associated structures.

Having to do with the curing or preventing of deformities, especially in children; as, an orthopedic hospital.

Orthopedics.

Pertaining to cure of malformations.

Same etymon. Relating to orthopaedia,-as Orthopedic Institution, Institutum orthopaedicum seu orthopaedium; an institution for the correction or prevention of deformities in children.

Pertaining to the correction of deformities.