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PEDOLOGY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does pedology mean?
• PEDOLOGY (noun)
The noun PEDOLOGY has 1 sense:
1. the branch of medicine concerned with the treatment of infants and children
Familiarity information: PEDOLOGY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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 ("pedology" 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 "pedology"):
neonatology (that branch of pediatric medicine concerned with the newborn; the diagnosis and treatment of neonates)
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