The Collaborative International Dictionary
orthopaedic \orthopaedic\, orthopaedics \orthopaedics\ See otrthopedic and orthopedics.
Wiktionary
a. (alternative spelling of orthopedic English)
WordNet
adj. of or relating to or employed in orthopedics; "orthopedic shoes" [syn: orthopedic, orthopedical]
Usage examples of "orthopaedic".
Orthopaedic Registrar and they had seen a good deal of each other, for she was Sister in charge of the Orthopaedic Unit.
The Orthopaedic wing was on the top floor at the back of the hospital, its windows overlooked a network of dull streets lined with brick villas long since divided into flats or let out as bed sitters.
Alethea philosophically to Sue Phipps, her staff nurse, and ten minutes later wished the remark unsaid when the telephone rang to say that there was a compound fracture of tib and fib coming up and that the Orthopaedic Registrar would see it right away.
The examination took a long time and in the end Sir Walter Tring, the orthopaedic consultant, joined them as he was on his way to theatre.
Philly Chambers, a small dark girl who was junior sister in the orthopaedic theatre.
It was unusual for orthopaedic surgery and osteopathy to join forces so closely, but it appeared to work well.
Tell them to come as quickly as possible to the orthopaedic department at Rhoda Goldman.
The orthopaedic wing was right at the other end of the hospital and Mr.
There was one in particular, Frederick Frost, the junior registrar on the orthopaedic wards, a serious man who had given her to understand that he had singled her out for his attention.
Beck, the second orthopaedic surgeon, he was on the best of terms with him, and the housemen and nursing staff considered him to be the very acme of perfection.
The nurses lucky enough to work on the orthopaedic wards or in theatre bought new lipsticks, made play with their eyelashes and had their hair done far more often than usual, going to meet him in corridors or on the stairs by deliberate accident, but they were forced to admit not one of them had struck even the smallest spark of interest in him.
Usually there were broken bones involved, but for some reason this week it was cuts and bruises and concussion, so that none of the victims went to the orthopaedic block but arrived with monotonous regularity in the surgical ward.
Oxford sent it out in the diplomatic bag and Henry Pickering has promised to chase up the technicians at Hopkins Orthopaedic - I should have it back for the trial.
There were surgical cases, infectious diseases, ophthalmic, orthopaedic and medical cases, most of them beyond my abilities and capabilities.
Extensive orthopaedic and cosmetic surgery is said to have been performed.