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Health Occupations > Medicine > Aerospace Medicine

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Aerospace Medicine  

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Entry terms

  • Medicine, Aerospace

Note

  • specialty; med, physiol or psychol aspects of AVIATION go here but med, physiol or psychol aspects of space flight go under SPACE FLIGHT or other space related terms: Manual 28.8; DF: AEROSPACE MED

Scope note

  • That branch of medicine dealing with the studies and effects of flight through the atmosphere or in space upon the human body and with the prevention or cure of physiological or psychological malfunctions arising from these effects. (from NASA Thesaurus)

History note

  • 80; was see SPACE FLIGHT 1975-79; AVIATION MEDICINE was heading 1963-79; AVIATION DENTISTRY was heading 1965-79

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D000337

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