orthopedic

English

Alternative forms

• orthopædic, orthopaedic

Etymology

From French orthopédique.

Adjective

orthopedic (comparative more orthopedic, superlative most orthopedic)

1. 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.

Translations

Of or relating to orthopedics

• Catalan: ortopèdic
• Danish: ortopædisk
• Dutch: orthopedisch (nl)
• Esperanto: ortopedia
• French: orthopédique (fr)
• German: orthopädisch (de)
• Hungarian: ortopéd (hu), ortopédiai
• Irish: ortaipéideach
• Italian: ortopedico (it)
• Polish: ortopedyczny (pl)
• Portuguese: ortopédico
• Russian: ортопеди́ческий (ru) (ortopedíčeskij)
• Slovene: ortopedski
• Spanish: ortopédico (es)
• Swedish: ortopedisk