pædiatric, a. Med.
(piːdɪˈætrɪk)
Also pediatric.
[see pædo-, pedo-, and iatric a.]
Of, pertaining to, or dealing with pædiatrics or the diseases of children.
| 1880 A. Jacobi in Trans. Amer. Med. Assoc. XXXI. 709 (heading) Address on the claims of paediatric medicine. 1894 Lancet 3 Nov. 1065 Professor Johann Bokai, the well-known pædiatric physician. 1927 W. P. Lucas Mod. Pract. Pediatrics iii. 20 From the moment a child is conceived it is a pediatric problem. 1963 Times 16 May 13/3 For all these reasons it is not surprising that opinion among paediatricians and paediatric nurses is divided. 1965 Math. in Biol. & Med. (Med. Res. Council) v. 228 In a well known text book of paediatric surgery there is a photograph of nine children with tracheo-oesophageal fistula, successfully treated. 1973 D. Morley Paediatric Priorities in Developing World i. 1 Doctors with the relevant paediatric training can organize a service which will prevent more than one-half of the deaths in infancy and early childhood without awaiting any great change in environment. |
Hence pædiˈatrically adv.
| 1949 M. Mead Male & Female ix. 192 If her suckling of the child [is] replaced by a formula pediatrically prescribed—then also we may find very serious disturbances in maternal attitudes. |