What does paediatrician mean?
Word: Paediatrician
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Paediatrician means a doctor who looks after babies and children and treats their illnesses.
Synonyms: children's doctor, child specialist
How do you spell paediatrician?
Syllables: pae - di - a - tri - cian
Tricky part: British spelling starts with pae (a before e). The ending is cian, as in musician, not tion.
Watch out for: peadiatrician, paediatrition, paediatricain
Memory tip: The British ae, a before e, also starts aeroplane and sits in archaeology: write the a first, then the e.
Paediatrician in a sentence
Example 1: Before school starts, our paediatrician checks that all our vaccines are done.
Example 2: The paediatrician had a jar of stickers for brave children.
Example 3: Babies visit a paediatrician often in their first year.
Fun Fact
The paed part comes from the Greek pais, paidos, meaning child, and iatros means healer.
Practise the CREST Way
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the correctly spelt word:
a) paediatrician
b) temprature
c) vaccinasion
d) medecine
Show answer
a) paediatrician. Vaccination ends in tion, temperature has an e after the p, and medicine has an i after the d.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
The paeditrician checked the baby's weight and then gave her the polio drops.
a) paeditrician
b) weight
c) checked
d) polio
Show answer
a) paeditrician. After pae-di comes an a: pae-di-a-tri-cian.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
tradicaipaien
a) dietician
b) technician
c) paediatrician
d) patrician
Show answer
c) paediatrician. Technician needs an h, patrician is far too short and dietician has no p; the whole set makes paediatrician.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. A paediatrician's waiting room is most likely to have ____.
a) posters about false teeth
b) gym weights and mats
c) eye charts on every wall
d) toys and picture books
Show answer
d) toys and picture books
2. At a newborn baby's first check-up, what does a paediatrician do?
a) tests eyesight with a letter chart
b) checks weight, breathing and reflexes
c) cleans and polishes the gums
d) measures blood sugar after lunch
Show answer
b) checks weight, breathing and reflexes
