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orthopedics

branch of medicine dealing with the correction of deformities of bones or muscles
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Summary

orthopedics is a medical specialty[1]. orthopedics ranks in the top 4% of medical specialty entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7,313 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: academic discipline[3]
  • Subclass of: surgery[4]
  • Part of: surgery[5]
  • Commons category: Orthopedics[6]
  • Said to be the same as: orthopedic surgery[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Orthopedics[8]
  • OpenStreetMap tag: healthcare:speciality=orthopaedics[9]
  • Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[10], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11], New Encyclopedic Dictionary[12], Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 12[13]
  • Practiced by: orthopedist[14], orthopedic surgeon[15]

Why It Matters

orthopedics has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] orthopedics is known by 81 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

Related Entities

Orthopedic Surgery Simulation surgery Sytenko Institute of Spine and Joint Pathology

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 8w ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → Q21888
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48943|batch #48943]]: Add OSM wiki item IDs to items with matching OSM tags"
  2. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0002780-ortopedie
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0002780-ortopedie, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259494|batch #259494]]"
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