orthopod
/ˈɔːθəpɒd/Medicine slang
noun
An orthopaedic surgeon.
Origin
1960s; earliest use found in ‘Richard Gordon’ (b. 1921) (real name Gordon Ostlere). Alteration of orthopaedic, perhaps by confusion with -pod, or perhaps humorously after taxonomic words in -pod.
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