Related Experiment Video
Updated: Feb 24, 2026
10:36
Vascularized Composite Hand Allograft Procurement and Preparation for Distal and Proximal Forearm Allotransplantation: A Stepwise Approach
Published on: May 23, 2025
905
[Nicolas Andry (1658-1742) inventor of the term "orthopedics"]
1Service de Chirurgie Pédiatrique, Hôpital Edouard-Herriot, Lyon.
Annales De Chirurgie
|May 18, 1999
Abstract:
Nicolas Andry was born in 1658 in Lyons, France, and had a long Parisian career. He wrote a book entitled "L'orthopédie ou l'art de prévenir et de corriger dans les enfants les difformités du corps" just before his death, which was the first to use the term orthopedics.
