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The branch of surgery broadly concerned with the skeletalsystem (bones). This particular term is commonly misspelled. Orthopedicsis how this field of surgery is listed under Physicians & Surgeons in thetelephone Yellow Pages in Jacksonville, Florida. This spelling is quitecommon today. But it is actually incorrect, erroneous, flat out wrong. Orthopedics would relate the term to the foot because in Latin pedis meansfoot.
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