paediatrics

Questions about paediatrics

What does paediatrics mean?

paediatrics means "the branch of medicine concerned with the treatment of infants and children".

How many syllables are in paediatrics?

paediatrics has 5 syllables and divides as pa-e-di-a-trics under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for paediatrics?

Close synonyms include pediatrics, pediatric medicine, pedology. 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 paediatrics a common word?

paediatrics 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.