orthopedic

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Etymology

From French orthopédique.

Adjective

orthopedic (comparative more orthopedic, superlative most orthopedic)

  1. Of, or relating to orthopedics.
    • 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest, p. 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.

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