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Parent topics
Medicine: The study of health and disease of the human body. [e]- Doctor (disambiguation): Add brief definition or description
Surgery: Field of medicine that focuses on operative treatments of the body. [e]
Subtopics
- Anesthesiologist: Add brief definition or description
- Cardiologist: Add brief definition or description
Disease: A condition of the body in which one or more of its components fail to operate properly, resulting in disability, pain or other forms of suffering, or behavioral aberrations. [e]- Electronic medical record: A digital form of medical (hospital or clinic) record. [e]
- Hippocrates: (c. 460 – 370 BCE) A physician, who revolutionized the practice of medicine by transforming it from its mythical, superstitious, magical and supernatural roots to a science based on observation and reason. [e]
- Hippocratic Oath: An oath traditionally taken by physicians before practising medicine. [e]
- Homeopathy: System of alternative medicine involving administration of highly diluted substances with the intention to stimulate the body's natural healing processes, not considered proven by mainstream science. [e]
- Hospitalist: Physician, usually an internist, who specializes in the care of hospitalized patients. [e]
- Internist: Add brief definition or description
- Medical ethics: The study of moral values as they apply to medicine. [e]
- Medication: A licensed drug taken to cure or reduce symptoms of an illness or medical condition. [e]
- Primary care physician: Add brief definition or description
- Surgeon: Add brief definition or description
- Acute radiation syndrome: Disease or death caused by whole-body irradiation, over a short period of time, with a significant quantity of penetrating radiation [e]
- American Cryonics Society: California-based non-profit corporation that supports and promotes research and education into cryonics and cryobiology. [e]
- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek: (1632 - 1723) Dutch scientist who discovered single-celled organisms. [e]
Bacteriophage: A virus that infects bacteria; often called a phage. [e]- Chloroform: an organic chemical compound having the chemical formula CHCl3, also known as trichloromethane (IUPAC name). [e]
- Functional magnetic resonance imaging: A neuroimaging technique used to monitor task-specific blood oxygenation, primarily in the brain. [e]
- Genetic counseling: Testing of couples who are planning to be parents in which their genomes are evaluated regarding the likelihood of them having children with genetic diseases or defects. [e]
- Genetics: The study of the inheritance of characteristics, genes and DNA. [e]
- Hemochromatosis: Hereditary disorder affecting iron metabolism in which excessive amounts of iron accumulate in the body tissues, characterized by diabetes mellitus, liver dysfunction, and a bronze pigmentation of the skin. [e]
- Infant mortality: A concept in demography that estimates the "rate of deaths occurring in the first year of life". [e]
- John McKinly: A summary description of John McKinly, emphazing the career, political, location and family factors involved in the his career. [e]
- Joshua Clayton: Add brief definition or description
- Luc Montagnier: French virologist (b. 18 August 1932) and joint recipient with Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Harald zur Hausen of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, for their co-discovery of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). [e]
- Marcia Angell: An American physician at Harvard, author, and first female editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine. [e]
- Multiple sclerosis: A chronic, inflammatory, demyelinating disease that affects the central nervous system (CNS). [e]
- Neuroimaging: A group of techniques used to visualize structure and function of nervous systems, especially the vertebrate brain. [e]
- Paracelsus: (1493-1541) An early Renaissance alchemist, philosopher and physician credited with founding the modern fields of pharmacology and toxicology. [e]
- Patient satisfaction: Add brief definition or description
- Pharmacy: Add brief definition or description
- Radioactivity: Add brief definition or description
- Radiology: Add brief definition or description
- Ron Paul: Add brief definition or description
- Scoliosis: Add brief definition or description
- Snakebite: Add brief definition or description
- Venereal disease: Add brief definition or description
