pediatric

[pee-dee-a-trik]

adjective

1. of or relating to pediatrics.

2. relating to children and teenagers, especially in a medical setting.

Example Sentences

“It is absolutely definitive. There is no link between autism and vaccines. Zero. None,” said Dr. Yvonne Maldonado, a professor of pediatrics, epidemiology and population health at Stanford Medicine.

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For preschool-age kids, the drugs are often dispensed against pediatric guidelines, which call first for behavioral therapy, a treatment that can be hard to get.

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I am a mother of three, and in all my years of pediatric visits I never received meaningful guidance about feeding my kids.

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The closest pediatric neurologist Splinter’s team could find who would see Genesis was in Dallas, about 1½ hours away.

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Claire McCarthy, an assistant professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, advises parents to spread their compliments, love and cheerleading evenly among their children to avoid resentments or emotional fallout later in life.

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