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Descriptor English:
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Medicine
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Descriptor Spanish:
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Medicina
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Descriptor Portuguese:
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Medicina
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Synonyms English:
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Medical Specialities
Medical Specialties
Medical Specialty
Specialities, Medical
Specialties, Medical
Specialty, Medical
Medical Speciality
Speciality, Medical
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Tree Number:
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H02.403
SH1.020.020.040.010
SP4.001.002.028
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Definition English:
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The art and science of studying, performing research on, preventing, diagnosing, and treating disease, as well as the maintenance of health. |
Indexing Annotation English:
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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
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Entry Combination - descr/qualif English:
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Medicine/economics use Economics, Medical Medicine/education use Education, Medical Medicine/ethics use Ethics, Medical Medicine/history use History of Medicine Medicine/legislation & jurisprudence use Legislation, Medical Medicine/manpower use Health Manpower
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See Related English:
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Economics, Medical
Education, Medical
History of Medicine
Legislation, Medical
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History Note English:
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1963
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Allowable Qualifiers English:
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Record Number:
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8678
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Unique Identifier:
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D008511
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