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Pediatrics also called paediatrics, is the branch of medicine that deals with the medical care of infants, children, and adolescents. A medical practitioner who

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specializes in this area is known as a pediatrician or paediatrician. The word pediatrics and its cognates mean healer of children; they derive from two Greek words: παῖς (pais = child) and ἰατρός (iatros = doctor or healer).

 

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