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Definition of pediatrics
: a branch of medicine dealing with the development, care, and diseases of infants, children, and adolescents
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Some of those children will be admitted to and treated in the general pediatrics ward. — Sabrina Adams, SELF, "I Treat Infants With Whooping Cough in the ICU—Of Course I’m Pro-Vaccine," 26 Aug. 2019 Also called to testify was Dr. Janet Arnold-Clark, a specialist in child abuse pediatrics. — Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com, "Calif. Mom Allegedly Starved Son, 11, and Locked Him in Closet for 3 Years Before Death," 20 June 2019 An Ohio pediatrics office is experiencing a baby boom. — PEOPLE.com, "5 Staffers at Ohio Pediatrics Office Pregnant at the Same Time: 'They're Gonna Be Little Besties!'," 1 June 2018 Kaiser Permanente is opening a new medical center in downtown Sacramento on June 4, offering services in primary care, pediatrics, women's health, oncology and a pharmacy. — Molly Sullivan, sacbee, "Kaiser Permanente to open new medical center in downtown Sacramento | The Sacramento Bee," 3 May 2018 The college's pediatrics program was ranked third-best in the country for the second year in a row. — Kate Murphy, Cincinnati.com, "Thinking about grad school? Here's how local universities rank nationally," 20 Mar. 2018 The youngest kids typically found parents’ medications or illicit drugs and used them out of curiosity, said Dr. Jason Kane, the lead author and an associate pediatrics professor at the University of Chicago and Comer Children’s Hospital. — Washington Post, "Opioid poisonings, overdoses send more US kids to hospitals," 5 Mar. 2018 Mai Khanh Tran fled Saigon at age 9, worked through Harvard as a janitor and started her own pediatrics practice. — Charlotte Alter, Time, "A Year Ago, They Marched. Now a Record Number of Women Are Running for Office," 18 Jan. 2018 Charles David King was born in Harlem in 1969, when his father was a pediatrics resident at Harlem Hospital. — Calvin Baker, New York Times, "A Former Superagent Bets Big on a More Diverse Hollywood," 4 Oct. 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'pediatrics.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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pediatrics
noun
English Language Learners Definition of pediatrics
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: a branch of medicine that deals with the development, care, and diseases of babies and children
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or chiefly British paediatrics \ ˌpēd-ē-ˈa-triks
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Medical Definition of pediatrics
: a branch of medicine dealing with the development, care, and diseases of infants, children, and adolescents
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