Medical Subject Headings

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Preferred Name

Specialization

Synonyms

Specialism

Definitions

The limitation of practice or study to a particular branch of medicine, dentistry, or other health profession. It is philosophically distinct from the generalist theory in which familiarity with a wide cross-section of the particular discipline is advocated.

ID

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/D013038

altLabel

Specialism

Specialists

Specialist

AN

coordinate IM with field or subject (IM)

AQL

EC HI LJ SN ST TD

cui

C2713500

C0087009

C0037776

DC

1

definition

The limitation of practice or study to a particular branch of medicine, dentistry, or other health profession. It is philosophically distinct from the generalist theory in which familiarity with a wide cross-section of the particular discipline is advocated.

An occupation limited in scope to a subsection of a broader field.

DX

20100101

HN

2010 (1966)

Inverse of AQ

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000331

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000266

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000706

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000191

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000592

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000639

Machine permutation

2010; see SPECIALISM 1966-2009

MDA

19990101

MMR

20090706

MN

H02.811

notation

D013038

prefLabel

Specialization

TERMUI

T038417

T038418

T748912

TH

NLM (1966)

NLM (1992)

NLM (2010)

tui

T097

T078

T090

subClassOf

http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/D006281

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