ORTHOPEDIC
\ˌɔːθə͡ʊpˈiːdɪk], \ˌɔːθəʊpˈiːdɪk], \ˌɔː_θ_əʊ_p_ˈiː_d_ɪ_k]\
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A surgical specialty which utilizes medical, surgical, and physical methods to treat and correct deformities, diseases, and injuries to the skeletal system, its articulations, and associated structures.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Having to do with the curing or preventing of deformities, especially in children; as, an orthopedic hospital.
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Orthopedics.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
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Same etymon. Relating to orthopaedia,-as Orthopedic Institution, Institutum orthopaedicum seu orthopaedium; an institution for the correction or prevention of deformities in children.
By Robley Dunglison
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Pertaining to the correction of deformities.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Dopamine Acetyltransferase
- An enzyme that catalyzes the of groups from acetyl-CoA to arylamines. They have wide specificity for aromatic amines, particularly serotonin, and can also catalyze acetyl transfer between arylamines without CoA. EC 2.3.1.5.