English dictionary · adj

podiatric

Of or pertaining to podiatry, the medical specialty concerned with the foot

Meaning and definitions

1. Of or pertaining to podiatry, the medical specialty concerned with the foot

Connected roots

• pod-

  foot

• -iatry

  healing, medicine

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• psychiatric

  Of, or relating to, psychiatry.

• psychiatry

  the study and treatment of mental illness

• tripod

  a three-legged stand for supporting a camera or other apparatus

• geriatric

  Relating to the elderly.

• arthropod

  An invertebrate animal of the phylum Arthropoda, characterized by a chitinous exoskeleton and multiple jointed appendages.

• podiatry

  Chiropody.

• cephalopod

  Any mollusc of the class Cephalopoda, which includes squid, cuttlefish, octopus, nautiloids etc.

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