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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 tumors (cancer). A medical professional who practices oncology is an oncologist....
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 and blood vessels. The field includes diagnosis and treatment of congenital heart defects, coronary artery disease, heart...
Albert Pacifico Cardiac arrest St. Francis Hospital
Edgar Van Nuys Allen Myocardial ischaemia Banner Baywood Heart Hospital
Amit Patel Myocarditis Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Peter B. Berger Dressler's syndrome Arizona Heart Hospital
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x Neurology Gray736   Motor neuron disease LifeCare Hospitals of San Antonio
Neurology (from Greek νεῦρον, neuron, "nerve"; and -λογία, -logia) is a medical specialty dealing with disorders of the nervous system. Specifically, it deals with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of disease involving the central,...
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 the branch or specialty of medicine that deals with the study and application of imaging technology like x-ray and radiation to diagnosing and treating disease. Radiologists direct an array of imaging technologies (such as ultrasound,...
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. The name of this specialty originated in the form of the (semantically wrong) words dermologie (in French, 1764)...
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 concerned with the diagnosis, management and nonsurgical treatment of unusual or serious diseases. According to some sources, an emphasis on internal structures is implied. In North America, specialists in...
Mickey Eisenberg Diabetes mellitus type 2 Jersey Community Hospital
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     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 A phoropter in use Selig Percy Amoils Glaucoma Moorfields Eye Hospital
Ophthalmology is a branch of medicine which deals with the diseases and surgery of the visual pathways, including the eye, hairs, and areas surrounding the eye, such as the lacrimal system and eyelids. The term ophthalmologist is an eye specialist...
Herpes simplex Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
Uveitis UCSF Francis I. Proctor Foundation
Corneal ulcer Aditya Jyot Eye Hospital
Myopia
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x Obstetrics and gynaecology   Ogino Ginko Endometrial cancer Baptist Memorial Hospital for Women
Obstetrics and gynecology (often abbreviated to OB/GYN, OBG, O&G; or Obs & Gynae) are the two surgical specialties dealing with the female reproductive organs, and as such are often combined to form a single medical specialty and postgraduate...
Ovarian cancer Johnson City Specialty Hospital
Cervical cancer Bellevue Woman's Hospital
HIV infection
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 surgical specialty dealing with the care of women and their children during pregnancy, childbirth and postnatal. Midwifery is the non-surgical equivalent. Veterinary obstetrics is the same...
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 that specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of ear, nose, throat, and head and neck disorders. The full name of the specialty is otolaryngology-head and neck surgery....
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      
Pathology is the study and diagnosis of disease through examination of organs, tissues, bodily fluids, and whole bodies (autopsies). Pathology also encompasses the related scientific study of disease processes, called General pathology. Medical...
x Pediatrics Clinical Examination Hans Asperger Sinusitis Shriners Hospitals for Children-Chicago
Pediatrics is the branch of medicine that deals with the medical care of infants, children, and adolescents. The upper age limit of such patients ranges from age 12 to 21, depending on the country. A medical practitioner who specializes in this area...
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  
Urology (from Greek oûron, "urine" and -λογία, -logia "study of") is the surgical specialty that focuses on the urinary tracts of males and females, and on the reproductive system of males. Medical professionals specializing in the field of urology...
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;), or physiatry (pronounced /fɪ.zi.ˈæ.tri/ or /fɪ.ˈzaɪ.ə.tri/), is a branch of medicine which aims to enhance and restore functional ability and quality of life to those with physical impairments or...
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. While famous for aesthetic surgery, plastic surgery also includes two main fields: body modification and reconstructive surgery. The word ...
Ptosis
Burn
Varicose veins
x Preventive medicine A 1930 Soviet poster propagating breast care   AIDS  
Preventive medicine or preventive care refers to measures taken to prevent diseases, (or injuries) rather than curing them. It can be contrasted not only with curative medicine, but also with public health methods (which work at the level of...
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 branch or specialty of medicine and medical imaging that uses radioactive isotopes (radionuclides) and relies on the process of radioactive decay in the diagnosis and treatment of disease. In nuclear medicine procedures,...
x Emergency medicine EmergT Mickey Eisenberg Laryngitis  
Emergency medicine is a medical specialty in which a physician receives practical training to provide patients with acute illnesses or injuries which require immediate medical attention. While not usually providing long-term or continuing care,...
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 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 itself with the...
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 medicine dealing with disorder of the endocrine system and its specific secretions called hormones, the integration of developmental...
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, with some recognition outside the US (47 countries), including most Canadian provinces. Physicians or surgeons who graduate from osteopathic medical schools are...
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 provision of life support or organ support systems in patients who are critically ill and who usually require intensive monitoring. Patients requiring...
x Aviation medicine مدخل لعبة الانجذاب إلى الفضاء في  EPCOT.      
Aviation medicine, also called flight medicine or aerospace medicine, is a branch of preventive or occupational medicine in which the patients/subjects are pilots and aircrews. The specialty strives to treat or prevent conditions to which aircrews...
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   Thomas Masterman Winterbottom Malaria  
Tropical 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 infections and infestations that are classified as ...
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 is the surgery discipline focused on treating the central nervous system, peripheral nervous systems and spinal column diseases amenable to surgical intervention. Neurosurgery generally has the longest training period of all the medical...
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
An organ transplant 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 may soon allow...
Peter Heeger
x Optometry A phoropter in use Gil Morgan Myopia  
Optometry is a health care profession concerned with eyes and related structures, as well as vision, visual systems, and vision information processing in humans. Like most professions, optometry education, certification, and practice is regulated in...
Astigmatism
Presbyopia
Amblyopia
x Psychiatry /guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000490c66d   Obsessive-compulsive disorder Florida State Hospital
Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the study and treatment of mental disorders. The term was first coined by the German physician Johann Christian Reil in 1808. Psychiatric assessment typically starts with a mental status examination and...
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 broad branch of biomedical science that covers the study of all aspects of the immune system in all organisms. It deals with, among other things, the physiological functioning of the immune system in states of both health and disease...
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 Coxsackie A virus  
An infectious disease is a clinically evident illness resulting from the presence of pathogenic microbial agents, including pathogenic viruses, pathogenic bacteria, fungi, protozoa, multicellular parasites, and aberrant proteins known as prions....
Emil Adolf von Behring AIDS
Candidiasis
Chancroid
Donovanosis
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x Virology   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 cells for virus reproduction, the diseases they cause, the techniques to isolate and culture them, and their use...
Paul A. Offit AIDS-related complex
Chickenpox
Common cold
Cytomegalovirus
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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 a medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a patient to investigate and/or treat a pathological condition such as...
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 Orthopedic surgery   Mallet finger New England Baptist Hospital
Orthopedic surgery or orthopedics (also spelled orthopaedics) is the branch of surgery concerned with conditions involving the musculoskeletal system. Orthopedic surgeons use both surgical and non-surgical means to treat musculoskeletal trauma,...
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 Cancer     The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
Cancer /ˈkænsə(r)/  ( listen) (medical term: malignant neoplasm) is a class of diseases in which a group of cells display uncontrolled growth (division beyond the normal limits), invasion (intrusion on and destruction of adjacent tissues), and...
UNC Hospitals
John Wayne Cancer Institute
Hôtel-Dieu de Québec
x Respiratory disease       Barlow Respiratory Hospital
Respiratory Disease is the term for diseases of the respiratory system. These include diseases of the lung, pleural cavity, bronchial tubes, trachea, upper respiratory tract and of the nerves and muscles of breathing. Respiratory diseases range from...
Sage Memorial Hospital
Barlow Respiratory Hospital
Barlow Respiratory Hospital
Barlow Respiratory Hospital
x Acute care       Sparrow Specialty Hospital
Acute care is a branch of tertiary health-care where necessary treatment of a disease for only a short period of time in which a patient is treated for a brief but severe episode of illness. Many hospitals are acute care facilities with the goal of...
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
In medicine, pulmonology (aka pneumology) is the specialty that deals with diseases of the lungs and the respiratory tract. It is called chest medicine and respiratory medicine in some countries and areas. Pulmonology is generally considered a...
Lung cancer
Small Cell Lung Carcinoma
Non-Small Cell Lung Carcinoma
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
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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. Nevertheless, it is currently an interdisciplinary science that involves other disciplines such as cognitive and neuro...
Toronto Western 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 internal medicine, physiology, pathology, clinical laboratory work, and pediatrics that is concerned with the study of blood, the blood-forming...
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 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-wake...
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 an umbrella term for the processes of medical and/or psychotherapeutic treatment, for dependency on psychoactive substances such as alcohol, prescription drugs, and so-called street drugs such...
x Gastroenterology Greek physician Galen wrote about the plague   Colorectal cancer  
Gastroenterology (MeSH heading) is the branch of medicine whereby the digestive system and its disorders are studied. Etymologically, the name is a combination of three Ancient Greek words gaster (gen.: gastros) (stomach), enteron (intestine), and...
Pancreatic cancer
Esophageal cancer
Hepatitis B
Hepatitis A
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x Dentistry A Dentist and Dental Assistant perform surgery on a patient Doc Holliday Dental caries King's College Hospital
Dentistry is the known evaluation, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diseases, disorders and conditions of the soft and hard tissues of the jaw (mandible), the oral cavity, maxillofacial area and the adjacent and associated structures and...
Guy's Hospital
x Hepatology ERCP stone   Liver cancer  
Hepatology is the branch of medicine that incorporates 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 Gynaecology 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". Almost all modern gynaecologists are also...
Endometrial cancer Jessop Hospital
Ovarian cancer Tsan Yuk Hospital
Gonorrhoea
Bacterial vaginosis
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x NCI-designated Cancer Center       Fletcher Allen Health Care
NCI-designated Cancer Centers are a group of approximately 60 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 2008,...
x Xenotransplantation   John R. Brinkley    
Xenotransplantation (xeno- from the Greek meaning "foreign") is the transplantation of living cells, tissues or organs from one species to another, such as from pigs to humans (see medical grafting). Such cells, tissues or organs are called...
x Erectile dysfunction ED circle John R. Brinkley    
Erectile dysfunction (ED, "male impotence") is a sexual dysfunction characterized by the inability to develop or maintain an erection of the penis sufficient for satisfactory sexual performance. An erection occurs as a hydraulic effect due to blood...
x Family medicine     AIDS  
Family medicine is a medical specialty devoted to comprehensive health care to people of all ages. It is a form of primary care that provides continuing, comprehensive health care for the individual and family across all ages, sexes, diseases, and...
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 the immune system begins to fail, leading to life-threatening opportunistic...
x Clinical engineering   Cardiologist Cardiovascular pathology 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 or PD) is a degenerative disorder of the central nervous system that often impairs the sufferer's motor skills, speech, and other functions. Parkinson's disease belongs to a group of conditions...
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