orthopedic
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From French orthopédique.
Adjective
orthopedic (comparative more orthopedic, superlative most orthopedic)
- Of, or relating to orthopedics.
- 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 291:
- The destiny-grade event that happened to Orin Incandenza at this point was that just as he was passing glumly under the Home goalposts and entering the shadow of the south exit-tunnel's adit a loud and ominously orthopedic cracking sound, plus then shrieking, issued from somewhere on the field behind him.
Derived terms
Translations
Of or relating to orthopedics
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