tropical medicine

Preferred Label : tropical medicine;

MeSH definition : The branch of medicine concerned with diseases, mainly of parasitic origin, common in tropical and subtropical regions.;

MeSH synonym : medicine, tropical;

MeSH annotation : use for the specialty only; tropical diseases when very general but avoid: prefer specific diseases;

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

Details

Origin ID

D014330;

UMLS CUI

C0041186;

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]
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Tropical diseases [UNESCO concept]
- Tropical medicine [PASCAL theme]
- Tropical medicine (qualifier value) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Tropical medicine specialist (occupation) [SNOMED CT concept]
- traveler's health [MedlinePlus Topic]
Metaterm(s)
- infectious disease medicine [CISMeF Metaterm]
Record concept(s)
- tropical medicine [MeSH concept]
See also (suggested by CISMeF)
- paraparesis, tropical spastic [MeSH Descriptor]
- parasitology [MeSH Descriptor]
- sprue, tropical [MeSH Descriptor]
- travel [MeSH Descriptor]
- travel medicine [MeSH Descriptor]
- tropical climate [MeSH Descriptor]
See also inter- (CISMeF)
- Tropical Disease [NCIt concept]
Semantic type(s)
- Biomedical Occupation or Discipline [UMLS semantic type]

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