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noun
the care of the human foot, especially the diagnosis and treatment of foot disorders.
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Podiatry
is always a great word to know.
So is callithumpian. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
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World English Dictionary
| podiatry (pɒˈdaiətrɪ) | |
| —n | |
| another word for chiropody | |
| [C20: from Greek pous foot] | |
| podiatric | |
| —adj | |
| po'diatrist | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
podiatry
1914, formed from Gk. pod-, stem of pous "foot" (see foot) + iatreia "healing," from iatros "physician." An attempt to supplant chiropody, chiropodist (the latter from 1785) and distance the practice from the popular impression of unskilled corn-cutters. The National Association
EXPANDof Chiropodists changed its name to American Podiatry Association 1958.
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American Heritage
Medical Dictionary
podiatry po·di·a·try (pə-dī'ə-trē)
n.
The branch of medicine concerned with the diagnosis and medical, surgical, mechanical, physical, and adjunctive treatment of the diseases, injuries, and defects of the foot. Also called chiropody, podiatric medicine.
po'di·at'ric (pō'dē-āt'rĭk) adj.
po·di'a·trist n.
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