'Orthopedics' means 'raising children straight' — Greek 'orthos' (straight) + 'paideia' (child-rearing).
The branch of medicine dealing with the correction of deformities of bones or muscles.
From French 'orthopedie,' coined by Nicolas Andry de Bois-Regard in his 1741 treatise 'L'Orthopedie,' from Greek 'orthos' (straight, correct, upright) + 'paideia' (child-rearing, education, cultivation), from 'pais' (child). The PIE root of 'orthos' is *h3er-dh- (to grow, to rise, upright). The PIE root of 'pais' is *peh2w- (small, few, little — child). Orthopedics is literally 'the straightening of children' — Andry's original concern was preventing