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Definition of Pediatric medicine
1. Noun. The branch of medicine concerned with the treatment of infants and children.
Generic synonyms: Medical Specialty, Medicine
Specialized synonyms: Neonatology
Derivative terms: Paediatric, Paediatrician, Pediatric, Pediatrician, Pediatrist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pediatric Medicine
Literary usage of Pediatric medicine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1902)
"... of Children " has stood in the front rank of the works devoted to pediatric
medicine. A perusal of the seventh edition, which has just been published, ..."
2. Personal Reminiscences and Recollections of Forty-six Years' Membership in by Samuel Clagett Busey (1895)
"... J. Lewis Smith, Churchill, Tanner, Vogel, and numerous others of later date,
until now the bibliography of pediatric medicine is a library in itself. ..."
3. The American Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children (1916)
"... THE MOST NEGLECTED FEATURE IX pediatric medicine. Modern medicine is concerned
with the prevention of disease and nowhere is there a wider field for the ..."
4. Emil Von Behring: Infectious Disease, Immunology, Serum Therapy by Derek S. Linton (2005)
"But it was only beginning in October 1892 when Otto Heubner, professor of pediatric
medicine at the University of Leipzig, first requested serum, ..."
5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1901)
"... having been written by a gentleman of unusually wide experience in this
department of pediatric medicine, ought to be a work of value to its readers. ..."
6. Treating the Lifetime Health Effects of Childhood Victimization by Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett (2003)
"... the other is through the health care system, particularly pediatric medicine.
Child welfare involvement, and its accompanying literature, ..."
7. Manual of the Diseases of Children by John Madison Taylor, William Hughes Wells (1901)
"... individual views when commenting upon the opinions of the great masters in
the field of pediatric medicine. The names of few authorities are mentioned. ..."