orthopaedics

1. 1.

   the branch of medical science concerned with disorders or deformities of the spine and joints

   Synonymsorthopedics

   Broadermedical science

Other forms of orthopaedics

plural

orthopaedicses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about orthopaedics

What does orthopaedics mean?

orthopaedics means "the branch of medical science concerned with disorders or deformities of the spine and joints".

How many syllables are in orthopaedics?

orthopaedics has 5 syllables: or-tho-pa-e-dics. The stress falls on "pa".

What is another word for orthopaedics?

Close synonyms include orthopedics. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is orthopaedics a common word?

orthopaedics is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.