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Paediatric is an adjective. It means “about the medical care of children”. A paediatric ward is the children’s part of a hospital; paediatric nurses look after babies and young people, not adults. Though actually, the given line (“the area of medicine…”) is the noun paediatrics. People do say “I work in paediatric medicine,” but paediatric by itself is the describing word, like dental in dental clinic. It is a normal hospital word, not slang. British spelling keeps ae; American English pediatric.
小兒科的
組成paed- (Greek “child”) + -iatric (from Greek iatros, “doctor”, so “medical treatment”).
同家族的字
- paediatricianthe doctor who does this work
- paediatricsthe name of the field; paediatric is the adjective
- geriatricshares -iatric, “medical treatment”; this one is for older people
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
paediatricadj
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Standard spelling of pediatric.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。