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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pediatric

Pediatric \Ped`i*at"ric\ (p[e^]d`[i^]*[a^]t"r[i^]k or p[=e]d`[i^]*[a^]t"r[i^]k), a. [Gr. pai^s, paido`s, child + 'iatrei`a healing.] (Med.) Pertaining to the care and medical treatment of children.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
pediatric

1849, from Greek paid-, stem of pais "child" (see pedo-) + -iatric.\n

Wiktionary
pediatric

a. Of or pertaining to pediatrics, the branch of medicine dealing with the care and treatment of children.

WordNet
pediatric

adj. of or relating to the medical care of children; "pediatric dentist" [syn: paediatric]

Usage examples of "pediatric".

One of the rent-a-cops patrolling the halls of Pediatric Paradise for signs of evil?

That premise was backed up by examples of hospitals and HMOs gone bust, and interviews with financial honchos, one of them George Plumb, formerly CEO of MGS Healthcare Consultants, Pittsburgh, and currently CEO of Western Pediatric Medical Center, Los Angeles.

He came out right afterward, in his Volvo, and I followed him at a distance, to Western Pediatric Medical Center.

Web is concerned with keeping costs down and building the new pediatric wing.

Between her new husband, Robert, and her recent acceptance into a fine pediatric group, her life seemed to be going almost too well.

Boston Memorial since at the time she was taking a year of fellowship in pediatric endocrinology.

The last thing Marissa cared to think about was her pediatric practice.

At the corner of Arlington and Boylston she took the T out Huntington Avenue to her pediatric clinic.

Then I heard them STAT page the pediatric cardiologist, and I knew it was him.

When I was a fourth-year student, I was on the pediatric service at Memorial and we had a three-year-old child who had been burned.

Lia Lee was admitted to MCMC seventeen times and made more than a hundred outpatient visits to the emergency room and to the pediatric clinic at the Family Practice Center.

United States who by the end of their three-year program were so familiar with the management of pediatric grand mal seizures.

After she was old enough to walk, whenever she was well enough to get out of bed she ran up and down the corridor in the pediatric unit, banging on doors, barging into the rooms of other sick children, yanking open the drawers in the nursing station, snatching pencils and hospital forms and prescription pads and throwing them on the floor.

Many of the doctors remember Lia with affection because, unlike most of their pediatric patients, she was always physically demonstrative.

But the few courses of pediatric study she had mastered had taught her one thing.