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x Oncology     Cancer Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Oncology (from the Ancient Greek onkos (ὄγκος), meaning bulk, mass, or tumor, and the suffix -logy (-λογία), meaning "study of") is a branch of medicine that deals with cancer. A medical professional who practices oncology is an oncologist. Oncology...
Bladder cancer H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute
Breast cancer Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Colorectal cancer City of Hope National Medical Center
Skin cancer Karmanos Cancer Center
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x Cardiology ECG Principle fast Karel Frederik Wenckebach Myocardial infarction Bakersfield Heart Hospital
Cardiology (from Greek καρδίᾱ, kardiā, "heart"; and -λογία, -logia) is a medical specialty dealing with disorders of the heart (specifically the human heart). The field includes medical diagnosis and treatment of congenital heart defects, coronary...
Albert Pacifico Cardiac arrest St. Francis Hospital
Edgar Van Nuys Allen Myocarditis Banner Baywood Heart Hospital
Amit Patel Dressler's syndrome Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Peter B. Berger Heart Disease Arizona Heart Hospital
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x Neurology Gray736 Jonathan Miller Motor neuron disease LifeCare Hospitals of San Antonio
Neurology (from Greek νεῦρον, neuron, "nerve" + the suffix -λογία, '-logia', "study of") is a medical specialty dealing with disorders of the nervous system. To be specific, it deals with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of disease...
Alzheimer's disease King's College Hospital
Dementia National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
Huntington's disease Royal Adelaide Hospital
Parkinson's disease Montreal Neurological Institute
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x Radiology Pneumonia x-ray Antoine Béclère    
Radiology is a medical specialty that employs the use of imaging to both diagnose and treat disease visualised within the human body. Radiologists use an array of imaging technologies (such as x-ray radiography, ultrasound, computed tomography (CT),...
x Dermatology     Skin cancer  
Dermatology is the branch of medicine dealing with the skin and its diseases, a unique specialty with both medical and surgical aspects. A dermatologist takes care of diseases, in the widest sense, and some cosmetic problems of the skin, scalp, hair...
Melanoma
Molluscum contagiosum
Jock itch
Kaposi's sarcoma
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x Internal medicine   Peter Agre Hepatitis B Antelope Valley Hospital Medical Center
Internal medicine is the medical specialty dealing with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of adult diseases. Physicians specializing in internal medicine are called internists. They are especially skilled in the management of patients who...
Mickey Eisenberg Diabetes mellitus type 2 Jersey Community Hospital
Kenneth Hammerman Hepatitis C St. Vincent's Hospital
Hepatitis E Morton Hospital and Medical Center
Alcoholic hepatitis Michael Reese Hospital
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x Medical genetics Image showing the structure of DNA.   Down syndrome  
Medical genetics is the specialty of medicine that involves the diagnosis and management of hereditary disorders. Medical genetics differs from Human genetics in that human genetics is a field of scientific research that may or may not apply to...
Coeliac disease
Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
Canavan disease
Angelman syndrome
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x Ophthalmology Geraet beim Optiker Selig Percy Amoils Glaucoma Moorfields Eye Hospital
Opthalmology is the branch of medicine that deals with the anatomy, physiology and diseases of the eye. An ophthalmologist is a specialist in medical and surgical eye problems. Since ophthalmologists perform operations on eyes, they are considered...
Chandana Sultana Herpes simplex Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
Uveitis UCSF Francis I. Proctor Foundation
Myopia Aditya Jyot Eye Hospital
Macular degeneration Sarojini Devi Eye Hospital
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x Obstetrics and gynaecology   Ogino Ginko Endometrial cancer Baptist Memorial Hospital for Women
Obstetrics and gynaecology (or obstetrics and gynecology; often abbreviated to OB/GYN, OBG, O&G; or Obs & Gynae) are the two surgical–medical specialties dealing with the female reproductive organs in their pregnant and non-pregnant state,...
Ovarian cancer Johnson City Specialty Hospital
Cervical cancer Bellevue Woman's Hospital
HIV infection UAB Hospital
AIDS
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x Obstetrics Anatomical model of a human pregnancy   Adenomyosis St Mary's Hospital, Manchester
Obstetrics (from the Latin obstare, "to stand by") is the medical specialty dealing with the care of all women's reproductive tracts and their children during pregnancy (prenatal period), childbirth and the postnatal period. Veterinary obstetrics is...
Bartholin's cyst Royal Hobart Hospital
Endometriosis Jessop Hospital
Hydatidiform mole Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
Miscarriage Tsan Yuk Hospital
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x Otolaryngology Otorrino   Oral cancer New York Eye and Ear Infirmary
Otolaryngology or ENT (ear, nose, and throat) is the branch of medicine and surgery that specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of disorders of the head and neck. The full name of the specialty is otorhinolaryngology; (neoclassical Greek and...
Thyroid cancer Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital
Papillary thyroid cancer Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
Medullary thyroid cancer Callahan Eye Foundation Hospital
Follicular thyroid cancer Bascom Palmer Eye Institute-Anne Bates Leach Eye Hospital
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x Pathology Renal Cell Carcinoma Jack Kevorkian    
Pathology is the precise study and diagnosis of disease. The word pathology is from Ancient Greek πάθος, pathos, "feeling, suffering"; and -λογία, -logia, "the study of". Pathologization, to pathologize, refers to the process of defining a condition...
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Camillo Golgi
x Pediatrics Clinical Examination Hans Asperger Sinusitis Shriners Hospitals for Children-Chicago
Pediatrics (also known as paediatrics) is the branch of medicine that deals with the medical care of infants, children, and adolescents. A medical practitioner who specializes in this area is known as a pediatrician, or paediatrician. The word...
Pharyngitis Healthbridge Children's Hospital of Houston
Tonsillitis All Children's Hospital
Laryngitis Phoenix Children's Hospital
Rhinitis Shriners Hospitals for Children, Tampa
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x Urology     Kidney stone Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation
Urology (from Greek οὖρον - oûron, "urine" and -λογία, -logia "study of") is the medical and surgical specialty that focuses on the urinary tracts of males and females, and on the reproductive system of males. Medical professionals specializing in...
Bladder cancer
Prostate cancer
Gonorrhoea
HIV infection
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x Thoracic surgery DrenagemPleural Alexis Carrel Cardiovascular disease  
Thoracic surgery is the field of medicine involved in the surgical treatment of diseases affecting organs inside the thorax (the chest). Generally treatment of conditions of the lungs, chest wall, and diaphragm. Thoracic surgery is often grouped...
Heart Disease
Inflammatory heart disease
Endocarditis
Myocarditis
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x Physical medicine and rehabilitation MayoMedicalCentersign2006-05-14   Anterior cruciate ligament injury Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago
Physical medicine and rehabilitation (PM&R;), physiatry /fɨˈzaɪ.ətri/ or rehabilitation medicine, is a branch of medicine that aims to enhance and restore functional ability and quality of life to those with physical impairments or disabilities. A...
Quadriplegia Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital and Clinics
Regional Health Rehabilitation Hospital
Bronson Vicksburg Hospital
HEALTHSOUTH Rehabilitation Hospital of Texarkana
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x Plastic surgery Walter Yeo skin graft   Bedsore Broomfield Hospital
Plastic surgery is a medical specialty concerned with the correction or restoration of form and function. Though cosmetic or aesthetic surgery is the best-known kind of plastic surgery, most plastic surgery is not cosmetic: plastic surgery includes...
Ptosis Glasgow Royal Infirmary
Burn
Varicose veins
x Preventive medicine     AIDS  
Preventive medicine or preventive care refers to measures taken to prevent diseases, (or injuries) rather than curing them or treating their symptoms. The term contrasts in method with curative and palliative medicine, and in scope with public...
HIV infection
Bacterial vaginosis
Candidiasis
Chancroid
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x Nuclear medicine Shown above is the bone scintigraphy of a young woman      
Nuclear medicine is a medical specialty involving the application of radioactive substances in the diagnosis and treatment of disease. In nuclear medicine procedures, radionuclides are combined with other elements to form chemical compounds, or else...
x Emergency medicine EmergT Mickey Eisenberg Laryngitis Requena
Emergency medicine is a medical specialty in which physicians care for patients with acute illnesses or injuries which require immediate medical attention. While not usually providing long-term or continuing care, emergency medicine physicians...
Aortic aneurysm
Abdominal aortic aneurysm
Meningitis
Stroke
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x Allergy and Immunology     Hay fever  
Allergy and Immunology is a medical specialty on the diagnosis, treatment, and management of diseases and medical conditions involving the immune system. The field of Allergy and Immunology covers a wide variety of conditions, from allergies brought...
Asthma
Autoimmunity
Systemic lupus erythematosus
Allergy
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x Nephrology A drawing of the human kidney from Gray's Anatomy.   Acute renal failure  
Nephrology (from Greek νεφρός – nephros, "kidney", combined with the suffix -logy, "the study of") is a branch of internal medicine and pediatrics dealing with the study of the function and diseases of the kidney. Nephrology concerns the diagnosis...
Kidney stone
Kidney cancer
Urethral stricture
Urinary tract infection
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x Endocrinology Amine hormones: norepinephrine and triiodothryonine   Pancreatic cancer  
Endocrinology (from Greek ἔνδον, endo, "within"; κρῑνω, krīnō, "to separate"; and -λογία, -logia) is a branch of biology and medicine dealing with the endocrine system, its diseases, and its specific secretions called hormones, the integration of...
Thyroid cancer
Papillary thyroid cancer
Medullary thyroid cancer
Follicular thyroid cancer
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x Osteopathic medicine Osteopathic medicine      
Osteopathic medicine is a branch of the medical profession in the United States. Osteopathic physicians are licensed to practice medicine and surgery in all 50 states and are recognized in fifty-five other countries, including most Canadian...
x Transfusion medicine        
Transfusion medicine (or transfusiology) is the branch of medicine that is concerned with the transfusion of blood and blood components. The blood bank is the section of the clinical laboratory where medical technologists process and distribute...
x Intensive care medicine VIP Bird2   Wilson's disease Royal Hobart Hospital
Intensive-care medicine or critical-care medicine is a branch of medicine concerned with the diagnosis and management of life threatening conditions requiring sophisticated organ support and invasive monitoring. Patients requiring intensive care may...
Burnley General Hospital
x Aviation medicine مدخل لعبة الانجذاب إلى الفضاء في  EPCOT.      
Aviation medicine, also called flight medicine or aerospace medicine, is a preventive or occupational medicine in which the patients/subjects are pilots, aircrews, or persons involved in spaceflight. The specialty strives to treat or prevent...
x Maternal-fetal medicine        
Maternal-Fetal medicine (MFM) is the branch of obstetrics that focuses on the medical and surgical management of high-risk pregnancies. Management includes monitoring and treatment including comprehensive ultrasound, chorionic villus sampling,...
x Tropical medicine Anopheles albimanus mosquito Thomas Masterman Winterbottom Malaria  
Tropical medicine (also sometimes called International medicine) is the branch of medicine that deals with health problems that occur uniquely, are more widespread, or prove more difficult to control in tropical and subtropical regions. Many...
Cholera
Tropical sprue
Chagas disease
Leprosy
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x Neurosurgery Insertion of electrode during surgery Arne Torkildsen Parkinson's disease King's College Hospital
Neurosurgery (or neurological surgery) is the medical specialty concerned with the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of disorders which affect any portion of the nervous system including the brain, spinal cord, peripheral nerves,...
Nikolai Burdenko Intracranial berry aneurysm National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
Percival Bailey Spinal disc herniation Royal Adelaide Hospital
Gopal Baratham Spinal stenosis Royal Hobart Hospital
Claude Bertrand Normal pressure hydrocephalus Calvary Wakefield Hospital
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x Organ transplant Beinwunder Cosmas und Damian Alexis Carrel   Toronto General Hospital
Organ transplantation is the moving of an organ from one body to another or from a donor site on the patient's own body, for the purpose of replacing the recipient's damaged or absent organ. The emerging field of regenerative medicine is allowing...
Peter Heeger Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation
Royal Victoria Hospital
x Optometry Geraet beim Optiker Gil Morgan Myopia  
Optometry is a health care profession concerned with the health of the eyes and related structures, as well as vision, visual systems, and vision information processing in humans. Optometrists (also known as ophthalmic opticians outside the United...
Astigmatism
Presbyopia
Amblyopia
x Psychiatry /m/0291kmf   Obsessive-compulsive disorder Florida State Hospital
Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the study and treatment of mental disorders. These mental disorders include various affective, behavioural, cognitive and perceptual abnormalities. The term was first coined by the German physician...
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder Central State Hospital
Paranoid personality disorder College Hospital
Schizoid personality disorder Hudson River Psychiatric Center
Schizotypal personality disorder Creedmoor Psychiatric Center
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x Immunology E A Behring Paul A. Offit Systemic lupus erythematosus  
Immunology is a branch of biomedical science that covers the study of all aspects of the immune system in all organisms. It deals with the physiological functioning of the immune system in states of both health and diseases; malfunctions of the...
Peter Heeger Allergy
AIDS
HIV infection
Kaposi's sarcoma
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x Infectious disease This false-colored electron micrograph shows a malaria sporozoite migrating through the midgut epithelia Julie Gerberding AIDS  
Infectious diseases, also known as transmissible diseases or communicable diseases comprise clinically evident illness (i.e., characteristic medical signs and/or symptoms of disease) resulting from the infection, presence and growth of pathogenic...
Emil Adolf von Behring Candidiasis
Chancroid
Donovanosis
Hepatitis B
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x Virology Martinus Beijerinck Thomas Francis, Jr. AIDS  
Virology is the study of viruses and virus-like agents: their structure, classification and evolution, their ways to infect and exploit host cells for virus reproduction, their interaction with host organism physiology and immunity, the diseases...
Paul A. Offit AIDS-related complex
Chickenpox
Common cold
Colorado tick fever
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x Surgery A cardiothoracic surgeon performs a mitral valve replacement at the Fitzsimons Army Medical Center Mary Edwards Walker Colorectal polyp Mary Shiels Hospital
Surgery (from the Greek: χειρουργική cheirourgikē, via Latin: chirurgiae, meaning "hand work") is an ancient medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a patient to investigate and/or treat a pathological condition...
Joseph Murray Southwest Surgical Hospital
Theodor Billroth Baylor Medical Center at Trophy Club
Edoardo Bassini Southeast Michigan Surgical Hospital
First Street Hospital
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x Vaccinology   Maurice Hilleman    
Vaccinology is the scientific discipline of vaccine research.
x Orthopedic surgery Teardrop fracture   Mallet finger New England Baptist Hospital
Orthopedic surgery or orthopedics (also spelled orthopaedic surgery and orthopaedics in British English) is the branch of surgery concerned with conditions involving the musculoskeletal system. Orthopedic surgeons use both surgical and nonsurgical...
Spinal Tuberculosis Hospital for Special Surgery
Osteoporosis Arizona Spine and Joint Hospital
Kyphosis Presbyterian-Orthopaedic Hospital
Scoliosis Hughston Orthopedic Hospital
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x Cancer Cancer1     The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
Malignant Neoplasm is a tumor composed of atypical neoplastic, often pleomorphic cells that invade other tissues. Malignant neoplasms often metastasize to distant anatomic sites and may recur after excision. The most common malignant neoplasms are...
UNC Hospitals
John Wayne Cancer Institute
Hôtel-Dieu de Québec
UAB Hospital
x Respiratory disease Emphysema low mag     Barlow Respiratory Hospital
Respiratory disease is a medical term that encompasses pathological conditions affecting the organs and tissues that make gas exchange possible in higher organisms, and includes conditions of the upper respiratory tract, trachea, bronchi,...
Sage Memorial Hospital
Barlow Respiratory Hospital
Barlow Respiratory Hospital
Barlow Respiratory Hospital
x Acute care       Sparrow Specialty Hospital
Acute care is a branch of secondary health care where a patient receives active but short-term treatment for a severe injury or episode of illness, an urgent medical condition, or during recovery from surgery. In medical terms, care for acute health...
Cornerstone Hospital of SouthEast Arizona
Continuecare Hospital of Southeast Texas
LifeCare Hospitals of South Texas
Cornerstone Hosp of Central Texas
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x Alcoholism and other chemical dependency       Brighton Hospital  
Julian F. Keith Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment Center
Bradford Health Services at Birmingham Lodge
Sierra Tucson
Cornerstone of Medical Arts Center Hospital
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x Pulmonology Lungs open   Pneumothorax Royal Adelaide Hospital
Pulmonology is the medical specialty dealing with disease involving the respiratory tract. The term is derived from the Latin word pulmonarius ("of the lungs") and from the Greek κρῑνω krīnō ("to separate") and -λογία, -logia. Pulmonology is also...
Lung cancer
Small Cell Lung Carcinoma
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Chronic bronchitis
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x Neuroscience CajalCerebellum     McLean Hospital
Neuroscience is the scientific study of the nervous system. Traditionally, neuroscience has been seen as a branch of biology. However, it is currently an interdisciplinary science that collaborates with other fields such as chemistry, computer...
Toronto Western Hospital
Southern General Hospital
x Hematology Ematologia: schema di produzione delle cellule del sangue   Iron deficiency anemia  
Hematology, also spelled haematology (from the Greek αἷμα haima "blood" and -λoγία), is the branch of biology physiology, internal medicine, pathology, clinical laboratory work, and pediatrics that is concerned with the study of blood, the blood...
Leukemia
Non-Hodgkin lymphoma
Chronic myelogenous leukemia
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia
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x Sleep medicine Sleep diary William C. Dement Delayed sleep phase syndrome  
Sleep medicine is a medical specialty or subspecialty devoted to the diagnosis and therapy of sleep disturbances and disorders. From the middle of the 20th century, research has provided increasing knowledge and answered many questions about sleep...
Sleep disorder
Obstructive sleep apnea
x Abdominal surgery   Theodor Billroth    
The term abdominal surgery broadly covers surgical procedures that involve opening the abdomen. Surgery of each abdominal organ is dealt with separately in connection with the description of that organ (see stomach, kidney, liver, etc.) Diseases...
x Drug rehabilitation       Brattleboro Retreat
Drug rehabilitation (often drug rehab or just rehab) is a term for the processes of medical or psychotherapeutic treatment, for dependency on psychoactive substances such as alcohol, prescription drugs, and so-called street drugs such as cocaine,...
x Gastroenterology Greek physician Galen wrote about the plague Kenneth Hammerman Colorectal cancer  
Gastroenterology (MeSH heading) is the branch of medicine whereby the digestive system and its disorders are studied. The name is a combination of three Ancient Greek words gaster (gen.: gastros) (stomach), enteron (intestine), and logos (reason)....
Pancreatic cancer
Esophageal cancer
Hepatitis B
Hepatitis A
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x Dentistry A Dentist and Dental Assistant perform surgery on a patient Fritz Pfeffer Dental caries King's College Hospital
Dentistry is the branch of medicine that is involved in the study, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diseases, disorders and conditions of the oral cavity, maxillofacial area and the adjacent and associated structures and their impact on the...
Guy's Hospital
x Hepatology ERCP stone   Liver tumour  
Hepatology is the branch of medicine that incorporates the study of liver, gallbladder, biliary tree, and pancreas as well as management of their disorders. Etymologically the word Hepatology is formed of ancient Greek hepar(ηπαρ) or hepato-(ηπατο-)...
Hepatitis B
Hepatitis C
Hepatitis D
Hepatitis E
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x Gynecology Gynaecology-1822   Cervical cancer St Mary's Hospital, Manchester
Gynaecology or gynecology is the medical practice dealing with the health of the female reproductive system (uterus, vagina, and ovaries). Literally, outside medicine, it means "the science of women". Its counterpart is andrology, which deals with...
Endometrial cancer Jessop Hospital
Ovarian cancer Tsan Yuk Hospital
Gonorrhoea Krishna Hospital
Bacterial vaginosis Daud Memorial Hospital
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x NCI-designated Cancer Center       Fletcher Allen Health Care
NCI-designated Cancer Centers are a group of approximately 66 cancer research institutions in the United States supported by the National Cancer Institute. Two designations are recognized: Comprehensive Cancer Centers and Cancer Centers. As of 2011,...
x Xenotransplantation   John R. Brinkley    
Xenotransplantation (xenos- from the Greek meaning "foreign"), is the transplantation of living cells, tissues or organs from one species to another. Such cells, tissues or organs are called xenografts or xenotransplants. In contrast, the term...
x Erectile dysfunction ED circle John R. Brinkley    
Erectile dysfunction (ED) is sexual dysfunction characterized by the inability to develop or maintain an erection of the penis during sexual performance. A penile erection is the hydraulic effect of blood entering and being retained in sponge-like...
x Family medicine     AIDS  
Family medicine (FM) is a medical specialty devoted to comprehensive health care for people of all ages. It is a division of primary care that provides continuing and comprehensive health care for the individual and family across all ages, genders,...
Bacterial vaginosis
Candidiasis
Chancroid
Chlamydia
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x HIV infection Preventing spread of HIV Tony Mills    
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a lentivirus (a member of the retrovirus family) that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), a condition in humans in which progressive failure of the immune system allows life-threatening...
x Clinical engineering     Atherosclerosis Hospital Clínic metro station
Clinical engineering is a specialty within Biomedical engineering responsible primarily for applying and implementing medical technology to optimize healthcare delivery. Roles of clinical engineers include training and supervising biomedical...
Hospital de Sant Pau
Hospital de Bellvitge metro station
x Parkinson's disease Sir William Richard Gowers Parkinson Disease sketch 1886 James Parkinson    
Parkinson's disease (also known as Parkinson disease, Parkinson's, idiopathic parkinsonism, primary parkinsonism, PD, or paralysis agitans) is a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system. The motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease result...
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