Concept information
Preferred term
Medicine
Type
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Topical Descriptor
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- Addiction Medicine
- Adolescent Medicine
- Aerospace Medicine
- Allergy and Immunology
- Anesthesiology
- Bariatric Medicine
- Behavioral Medicine
- Clinical Medicine
- Community Medicine
- Dermatology
- Disaster Medicine
- Emergency Medicine
- Forensic Medicine
- General Practice
- Genetics, Medical
- Geography, Medical
- Geriatrics
- Global Health
- Hospital Medicine
- Integrative Medicine
- Internal Medicine
- Military Medicine
- Molecular Medicine
- Naval Medicine
- Neurology
- Osteopathic Medicine
- Palliative Medicine
- Pathology
- Pediatrics
- Perioperative Medicine
- Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine
- Psychiatry
- Public Health
- Radiology
- Regenerative Medicine
- Reproductive Medicine
- Social Medicine
- Specialties, Surgical
- Sports Medicine
- Telemedicine
- Travel Medicine
- Tropical Medicine
- Vaccinology
- Venereology
- Wilderness Medicine
Entry terms
- Insurance Medicine
- Insurance Medicines
- Medicine, Insurance
- Medicines, Insurance
- Specialties, Medical
Note
- medicine only as a field, profession or discipline: differentiate from DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE where the patient is emphasized; very general; it is divided broadly into experimental medicine ( = BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH) & CLINICAL MEDICINE, a specialty devoted to the diagnosis & management of human patients; / legislation & jurisprudence = LEGISLATION, MEDICAL or JURISPRUDENCE or FORENSIC MEDICINE; LEGAL MEDICINE see FORENSIC MEDICINE is also available
Scope note
- The art and science of studying, performing research on, preventing, diagnosing, and treating disease, as well as the maintenance of health.
History note
- 1963
In other languages
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Finnish
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ars medicina
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medicina
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Swedish
URI
http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D008511
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