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Anatomy
1,049 questions A branch of biology dealing with the structure of organisms.
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Organisms
388 questions Any living biological entity, such as an animal, plant, fungus, or bacterium.
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Diseases
1,356 questions Any impairment of normal physiological function affecting all or part of an organism, esp a specific pathological change caused by infection, stress, etc, producing characteristic symptoms; illness or sickness in general.
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Chemicals and Drugs
853 questions Any substance used in or resulting from a reaction involving changes to atoms or molecules, especially one derived artificially for practical use and any synthetic, semisynthetic, or natural chemical substance used in the treatment, prevention, or diagnosis of disease, or for other medical reasons.
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Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment
359 questions
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Diagnosis
54 questions The determination of the nature of a disease or condition, or the distinguishing of one disease or condition from another. Assessment may be made through physical examination, laboratory tests, or the likes. Computerized programs may be used to enhance the decision-making process.
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Therapeutics
31 questions Procedures concerned with the remedial treatment or prevention of diseases.
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Anesthesia and Analgesia
3 questions
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Surgical Procedures, Operative
31 questions Operations carried out for the correction of deformities and defects, repair of injuries, and diagnosis and cure of certain diseases. (Taber, 18th ed.)
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Investigative Techniques
17 questions Investigative techniques used in pre-clinical and clinical research, epidemiology, chemistry, immunology, genetics, etc. They do not include techniques specifically applied to DIAGNOSIS; THERAPEUTICS; anesthesia and analgesia; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; and DENTISTRY.
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Dentistry
12 questions The profession concerned with the teeth, oral cavity, and associated structures, and the diagnosis and treatment of their diseases including prevention and the restoration of defective and missing tissue.
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Equipment and Supplies
10 questions Expendable and nonexpendable equipment, supplies, apparatus, and instruments that are used in diagnostic, surgical, therapeutic, scientific, and experimental procedures.
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Psychiatry and Psychology
162 questions The branches of medicine concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness and the scientific study of all forms of human and animal behaviour, sometimes concerned with the methods through which behaviour can be modified.
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Phenomena and Processes
97 questions
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Disciplines and Occupations
28 questions
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Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena
98 questions
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Technology, Industry, Agriculture
84 questions
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Humanities
80 questions The study of literature, philosophy, and the arts.
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Information Science
219 questions The field of knowledge, theory, and technology dealing with the collection of facts and figures, and the processes and methods involved in their manipulation, storage, dissemination, publication, and retrieval. It includes the fields of COMMUNICATION; PUBLISHING; LIBRARY SCIENCE; and informatics.
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Named Groups
38 questions
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Health Care
1,264 questions
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Publication Characteristics
30 questions
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Geographicals
23 questions The study of the natural features of the earth's surface, including topography, climate, soil, vegetation, etc, and man's response to them.
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