(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 1:38:17

Or*thop"e*dy (?), n. [Ortho- + Gr. , , a child.] Med.

The art or practice of curing the deformities of children, or, by extension, any deformities of the human body.

 

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