pediatric care

Medical treatment for minors

Pediatric care is medical treatment for infants, children, and adolescents, typically up to age 18.

The field addresses conditions specific to developing bodies and minds—childhood illnesses, growth monitoring, vaccinations, and developmental milestones.

The hospital expanded its pediatric care unit.

Pediatricians are the primary physicians in this specialty.

Opposites
patient age group

pediatric caregeriatric care

Medicine for old age

geriatric medicine · elderly care · gerontology · elder care · aged care

care approach

pediatric caregeneral practice

Frontline medical care

internal medicine · family medicine · primary care

Family

care, doctor, pediatrician, pediatrics

Familiarity
Top 100,000
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