| orthopedic fixation devices | Devices which are used in the treatment of orthopedic injuries and diseases. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| orthopedic nursing | The specialty or practice of nursing in the care of the orthopedic patient. (12 Dec 1998) |
| orthopedic procedures | Procedures used to treat and correct deformities, diseases, and injuries to the skeletal system, its articulations, and associated structures. (12 Dec 1998) |
| orthopedical | <medicine> Pertaining to, or employed in, orthopedy; relating to the prevention or cure of deformities of children, or, in general, of the human body at any age; as, orthopedic surgery; an orthopedic hospital. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| orthopedics | Literally, the practice of child straightening, orthopedics is the branch of surgery broadly concerned with the skeletal system (bones). (12 Dec 1998) |
| orthopedist | <medicine> One who prevents, cures, or remedies deformities, especially. In children. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| orthopedy | <medicine> The art or practice of curing the deformities of children, or, by extension, any deformities of the human body. Origin: Ortho- + Gr, a child. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| orthopercussion | Very light percussion of the chest, made in a sagittal direction (i.e., anteroposteriorly, and not perpendicularly to the wall of the chest); used to determine the size of the heart, the faint percussion sound disappearing when the heart is reached even though that may be overlapped by a layer of the lung. (05 Mar 2000) |
| orthophoria | Absence of heterophoria; the condition of binocular fixation in which the lines of sight meet at a distant or near point of reference in the absence of a fusion stimulus. Origin: ortho-+ G. Phora, motion (05 Mar 2000) |
| orthophoric | Pertaining to orthophoria. (05 Mar 2000) |
| orthophosphate | A salt or ester of orthophosphoric acid. Inorganic orthophosphate (Pi, P1), any ion or salt form of phosphoric acid. Synonym: inorganic phosphate. (05 Mar 2000) |
| orthophosphoric acid | Phosphoric acid, O==P(OH)3, distinguished by ortho-from meta-and pyrophosphoric acids, (HPO3)n and OP(OH2)OP(OH)2O, respectively, which are anhydrides of H3PO4; the ultimate anhydride is phosphorus pentoxide, P2O5. (05 Mar 2000) |
| orthophrenia | 1. Rarely used term for soundness of mind. 2. Rarely used term for a condition of normal interpersonal relationships. Origin: ortho-+ G. Phren, mind (05 Mar 2000) |
| orthopinacoid | <chemistry> A name given to the two planes in the monoclinic system which are parallel to the vertical and orthodiagonal axes. Origin: Ortho- + pinacoid. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| orthopnea | The plight of a person who can only breath easily when sitting straight or standing erect. (12 Dec 1998) |