aerospace medicine

Preferred Label : aerospace medicine;

MeSH definition : That branch of medicine dealing with the studies and effects of flight through the atmosphere or in space upon the human body and with the prevention or cure of physiological or psychological malfunctions arising from these effects. (from NASA Thesaurus);

MeSH synonym : medicine, aerospace;

MeSH hyponym : aviation medicine; medicine, space; Medicine, Aviation; Space Medicine;

MeSH annotation : specialty; med, physiol or psychol aspects of AVIATION go here but med, physiol or psychol aspects of space flight go under SPACE FLIGHT or other space related terms: Manual 28.8; DF: AEROSPACE MED;

Wikipedia link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space medicine;

Details

Origin ID

D000337;

UMLS CUI

C0001713;

Allowable qualifiers
- classification [MeSH Qualifier]
- economics [MeSH Qualifier]
- education [MeSH Qualifier]
- ethics [MeSH Qualifier]
- history [MeSH Qualifier]
- instrumentation [MeSH Qualifier]
- legislation and jurisprudence [MeSH Qualifier]
- methods [MeSH Qualifier]
- organization & administration [MeSH Qualifier]
- standards [MeSH Qualifier]
- statistics and numerical data [MeSH Qualifier]
- trends [MeSH Qualifier]
Metaterm(s)
- aerospace medicine [CISMeF Metaterm]
Record concept(s)
- aerospace medicine [MeSH concept]
- aviation medicine [MeSH concept]
- medicine, space [MeSH concept]
See also
- accidents, aviation [MeSH Descriptor]
- air travel [MeSH Descriptor]
- altitude [MeSH Descriptor]
- decompression sickness [MeSH Descriptor]
- space flight [MeSH Descriptor]
See also (suggested by CISMeF)
- astronauts [MeSH Descriptor]
- aviation [MeSH Descriptor]
Semantic type(s)
- Biomedical Occupation or Discipline [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Aerospace medicine [LOINC method]
- Aerospace medicine (qualifier value) [SNOMED CT concept]

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