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The French pediatrician Nicholas Andry (1658–1742), considered the father of orthopedics, coined the word “orthopaedic”, which is made up of two Greek words, “orthos”, meaning straight, and “paidion”, meaning child (Fig. 1a) [3]. The term “orthopaedic” was used for the first time in the epoch-making textbook of Andry published in 1741.
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Gruber, P., Boeni, T. (2008). History of Spinal Disorders. In: Boos, N., Aebi, M. (eds) Spinal Disorders. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69091-7_1
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