orthopaedics
Britishnoun
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the branch of surgery concerned with disorders of the spine and joints and the repair of deformities of these parts
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another name for orthodontics
Other Word Forms
- orthopaedist noun
Example Sentences
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A 45-year-old Palestinian man told The Wall Street Journal he was detained by a Hamas street patrol and brought to the orthopaedics department in Nasser hospital for an interrogation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 15, 2026
The Scottish government has put its focus on tackling backlogs in the health service and has allocated more than £100m towards specialities with the longest waits, such as orthopaedics and ophthalmology.
From BBC • Nov. 25, 2025
Johnson & Johnson’s orthopaedics business accounted for 9.5% of the company’s total sales in the third quarter.
From Barron's • Oct. 14, 2025
Other Penn State authors on the paper include Sabrina Carrozzi, graduate student; Erdem Tabdanov, assistant professor of pharmacology; and Aman Dhawan, professor of orthopaedics and rehabilitation.
From Science Daily • Oct. 18, 2023
He had planned a cozy evening in his own room, with a new treatise on orthopaedics that had just come; but no one would have thought that he took delight in anything except Society meetings.
From Geoffrey Strong by Richards, Laura Elizabeth Howe
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