orthopraxia

[awr-thuh-prak-see-uh]

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noun Medicine/Medical.

the correction of deformities; orthopedics.

Also orthopraxy.

Origin of orthopraxia

1850–55; ortho- + Greek prâx(is) praxis + -ia

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