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• Orthopaedic footwear — is for people who have problems with feet and legs. Ortho in Greek expresses the idea of straight or correct and paedic comes from paideia ( rearing of children ). Orthopaedics originally evolved as a science for correction of deformities in… …   Wikipedia

• orthopaedic — denoting the branch of medicine concerned with treating deformities of the bones and muscles, is spelt paedic in BrE and pedic in AmE. The corresponding noun orthopaedics (AmE orthopedics) is normally treated as singular …   Modern English usage