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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
orthopedic
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
surgeon
▪ After finishing his studies in Boston, he returned to Los Angeles, becoming the first orthopedic surgeon in the Southwest.
▪ An orthopedic surgeon who asked not to be identified said he also hears increased patient complaints about waiting for bedpans or medications.
▪ The most orthopedic surgeons, specialists in bone injuries.
▪ He was taken to a local hospital, where doctors recommended that he see orthopedic surgeons here.
▪ Likewise, the orthopedic surgeon keeps records and shares all his information with the player.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ an orthopedic surgeon
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After finishing his studies in Boston, he returned to Los Angeles, becoming the first orthopedic surgeon in the Southwest.
▪ An orthopedic surgeon who asked not to be identified said he also hears increased patient complaints about waiting for bedpans or medications.
▪ And the medical staff has been augmented with an orthopedic and vascular surgeon.
▪ He was taken to a local hospital, where doctors recommended that he see orthopedic surgeons here.
▪ I can not see an orthopedic doctor until late March of 1996.
▪ My mom fired him on the spot and called in an orthopedic specialist.
▪ On April 1, 1922, Los Angeles's first orthopedic hospital opened, including a school for its young patients.
▪ The most orthopedic surgeons, specialists in bone injuries.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Orthopedic

Orthopedic \Or`tho*ped"ic\, Orthopedical \Or`tho*ped"ic*al\, a. (Med.) Of, pertaining to, or employed in, orthopedics; relating to the prevention or cure of deformities of children, or, in general, of the human body at any age; as, orthopedic surgery; an orthopedic hospital.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
orthopedic

1840, from French orthopédique, from orthopédie, coined by French physician Nicholas Andry (1658-1742), from Greek orthos "straight, correct" (see ortho-) + paideia "rearing of children," from pais (genitive paidos) "child" (see pedo-).

Wiktionary
orthopedic

a. Of, or relating to orthopedics.

WordNet
orthopedic

adj. of or relating to or employed in orthopedics; "orthopedic shoes" [syn: orthopaedic, orthopedical]

Usage examples of "orthopedic".

He was simultaneously being examined by the orthopedic surgeons, having intravenous lines inserted in both arms, having blood samples drawn, being catheterized, and being questioned by the resident, who stood at his head and shouted in order to be heard over the noise of the people working around him.

Surely these shapeless pastels and orthopedic shoes belong on someone else.

Doing some on their own and some together, they autopsied the initial patient, one orthopedic resident, two nurses, one orderly, two people who’d visited the patient, including the nine-year-old girl, and particularly important as far as Jack was concerned, one woman from central supply.

He had not regained consciousness but Bob Gerace and the resident orthopedic man had conferred over the results of the MRI and decided how to proceed.

She's different in all ways from the other three women that Juan dates-one is a professional figure skater, one is an orthopedic surgeon and one is a halftime dancer for the Miami Heat basketball team.

Lou had been an accountant for a big orthopedic shoe company in Brooklyn.

She did not answer, only held out her foot, with its heavy orthopedic shoe.

The second victim might have been a middle-aged man, judging by a bloodied orthopedic shoe that still held a foot.

Now she lived in Pasadena, working with an orthopedic shoe company that had designed a special footgear for those who suffered with Hansen's Disease.

Now she lived in Pasadena, working with an orthopedic shoe company that had designed a special footgear for those who suffered with Hansens Disease.

The other, stifling a yawn, kicked something off his thick-soled orthopedic shoe.

Then someone approaching: a sound that was irregular: the dragging clump of an orthopedic shoe.

Afterward, an orthopedic surgeon stopped in to report that although Garcia’.

Afterward, an orthopedic surgeon stopped in to report that although Garcia's left arm had been saved, it was too early to know if the muscles and bones would mend properly.

When he returns, in wrinkled blue jeans and a polo shirt, he is accompanied by a stunning black-haired woman whom I recognize as Miriam, the orthopedic surgeon.