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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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Tree Number:
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G02.403
SH1.020.020.040.010
SP4.001.002.028
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Definition English:
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The art and science of preventing, diagnosing, and treating disease, as well as the maintenance of health. |
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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 (see MeSH definition there); very general; avoid; it is divided broadly into experimental medicine ( = BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH) & CLINICAL MEDICINE, a specialty devoted to the diag & management of human patients; /legislation & jurisprudence = LEGISLATION, MEDICAL or JURISPRUDENCE or FORENSIC MEDICINE; legal med = FORENSIC MEDICINE or JURISPRUDENCE
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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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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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