PEDIATRIC MEDICINE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does pediatric medicine mean? 

• PEDIATRIC MEDICINE (noun)
  The noun PEDIATRIC MEDICINE has 1 sense:

1. the branch of medicine concerned with the treatment of infants and children

  Familiarity information: PEDIATRIC MEDICINE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PEDIATRIC MEDICINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The branch of medicine concerned with the treatment of infants and children

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

paediatrics; pediatric medicine; pediatrics; pedology

Hypernyms ("pediatric medicine" is a kind of...):

medical specialty; medicine (the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pediatric medicine"):

neonatology (that branch of pediatric medicine concerned with the newborn; the diagnosis and treatment of neonates)

 Context examples 

A branch of pediatric medicine focused on the diagnosis and treatment of newborns.

(Neonatology, NCI Thesaurus)