TY - JOUR
AU - Moore, C. Balcom
AB - 
        
          To the Editor:—
          In the March 16 issue of The Journal (183-938) there is the statement, "A standard nomenclature for the country would be beneficial," in reference to the 13-page Symposium on Orthetics. I think this statement should apply very well to the entire section, which includes a bunch of words, which I, as a urologist, have never run across before. I am sure that there are a number of doctors who are in the same boat as I and have difficulty understanding what orthetics, orthosis, and orthotist are. It would, therefore, have been very helpful if Dr. Bennett had included a paragraph of definitions. Certainly, my issue of Stedman's Medical Dictionary does not include any definitions which would help in this field, and most of the words are not listed. When this is the case, how can Dr. Bennett and his colleagues expect the rest of us to
        
      
TI - Orthosis, Orthetics, Orthesis, Orthotics
JF - JAMA
DO - 10.1001/jama.1963.03060070077040
DA - 1963-08-17
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/american-medical-association/orthosis-orthetics-orthesis-orthotics-3CS6V09srU
SP - 609
EP - 609
VL - 185
IS - 7
DP - DeepDyve
ER -