English dictionary · noun

podiatry

Chiropody.

Meaning and definitions

1. Chiropody.

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.

• cephalopod

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

• podiatric

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

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