Structured Summary
Abstract
The art and science of studying, performing research on, preventing, diagnosing, and treating disease, as well as the maintenance of health.
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Classification
Broader headings
Narrower headings
- 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
- Functional Medicine
- General Practice
- Geriatrics
- Global Health
- Hospital Medicine
- Integrative Medicine
- Internal Medicine
- Medical Genetics
- Medical Geography
- 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
- Sports Medicine
- Surgical Specialties
- Telemedicine
- Theranostic Nanomedicine
- Travel Medicine
- Tropical Medicine
- Vaccinology
- Venereology
- Wilderness Medicine
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Synonyms
12 entry terms
- Insurance Medicine
- Medical Specialities
- Medical Specialties
- Medical Specialty
- Specialities, Medical
- Specialties, Medical
- Specialty, Medical
- Insurance Medicines
- Medical Speciality
- Medicine, Insurance
- Medicines, Insurance
- Speciality, Medical
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Aspects Covered
7 allowable subheadings
Indexed with the subheadings classification, instrumentation, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.
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Indexing Annotation
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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History Note
1963
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Medicine. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D008511. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D008511
- Medicine. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicine
- Medicine. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11190