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Definition of "orthopedy" [or•thop•e•dy]

  • Archaic form of orthopedics. (noun)

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Use "orthopedy" in a sentence
  • "“Do they give lectures on orthopedy and intellectual gymnastics?” asked Merlin."
  • "All the bodily defects and deformities that orthopedy treats, give but a feeble idea of the humps, the tortuosities, the dislocations we have inflicted upon ourselves in order to depart from simple common sense; and at our own expense we learn that one does not deform himself with impunity."
  • "There cobblers lecture on orthopedy (whatsoever that may be) because they cannot sell their shoes; and poets on Æsthetics (whatsoever that may be) because they cannot sell their poetry."
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