| 知识 | Pediatrician is a combination of Greek paidos, child; iatreia, medical healing; and -ician, expert. Pediatrics, then, is by etymology the medical healing of a child. Adjective: pediatric |
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| 拓展 | The ped- you see in words like pedestal, pedal, and pedestrian is from the Latin pedis, foot, and despite the identical spelling in English has no relationship to Greek paidos. |
| 《》 | children |
| 出处 | Word Power Made Ease SESSION 5 |
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