单词 | podiatry |
释义 | podiatryn. Medicine (originally and chiefly North American). Chiropody; spec. the branch of medicine that deals with the foot, esp. with its bones and with the mechanics of walking. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > art or science of medicine > [noun] > chiropody or podology podology1818 pedicurism1863 chiropodistry1886 chiropody1886 chiropodism1887 podiatry1914 1914 F. von Oefele in M. J. Lewi Text Bk. Chiropody i. 3 The practice of foot lesions may hereafter be styled ‘Helotomy’ or, ‘Heliatry’, or more generally ‘Podiatry’. 1947 P. Lewin Foot & Ankle (ed. 3) xxxii. 717 Podiatry is the science of treatment of certain disorders of the feet. 1968 F. Weinstein Princ. & Pract. Podiatry i. 6/1 More and more hospitals [in the U.S.A.] are working toward the establishment of a regular department or division of podiatry. 1989 Hippocrates Nov. 28/1 A roster of complaints..reads like a first-year podiatry syllabus: corns, bunions, blisters, ingrown toenails, hammertoes. 1999 Daily Tel. 3 Nov. 21/4 The Royal London Homeopathic Hospital..has pioneered the use of homoeopathic podiatry in its Marigold Clinic. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1914 |
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