Nuclear Medicine

Preferred Label : Nuclear Medicine;

NCIt synonyms : Radiology / Radiation Biology / Nuclear Medicine; Radiology-Nuclear Medicine;

NCIt definition : Nuclear Medicine is the branch of medicine that uses radioactive materials either to image a patient's body or to destroy diseased cells.;

Details

Origin ID

C16922;

UMLS CUI

C0028582;

Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Medical technology [UNESCO concept]
- Nuclear medicine [ICD-9 code]
- Nuclear medicine procedure (procedure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Nuclear medicine specialist (occupation) [SNOMED CT concept]
Semantic type(s)
- Biomedical Occupation or Discipline [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Nuclear medicine [LOINC method]
- Nuclear medicine - specialty (qualifier value) [SNOMED CT concept]
- nuclear medicine [CISMeF Metaterm]
- nuclear medicine [MeSH concept]
- nuclear medicine [MeSH Descriptor]

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