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orthopraxia

American

[awr-thuh-prak-see-uh] / ˌɔr θəˈpræk si ə /

noun

Medicine/Medical.

the correction of deformities; orthopedics.

Etymology

Origin of orthopraxia

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

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