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Abstract
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)
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5 entry terms
- Medicine, Aerospace
- Aviation Medicine
- Medicine, Aviation
- Medicine, Space
- Space Medicine
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Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, education, ethics, history, instrumentation, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.
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Indexing Annotation
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
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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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- Space Flight (1975-1979)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Aerospace Medicine. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D000337. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D000337
- Aerospace Medicine. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_medicine
- Aerospace Medicine. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3332475