Disciplines and Occupations

Adolescent Medicine

A branch of medicine pertaining to the diagnosis and treatment of diseases occurring during the period of ADOLESCENCE.

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Structured Summary

Abstract

A branch of medicine pertaining to the diagnosis and treatment of diseases occurring during the period of ADOLESCENCE.

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Synonyms

3 entry terms
  • Ephebiatrics
  • Hebiatrics
  • Medicine, Adolescent

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Aspects Covered

12 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, education, ethics, history, instrumentation, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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Indexing Annotation

a specialty but may also be used for very general articles on adolescent diseases

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History Note

80

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Previous Indexing

  • Adolescence (1966-1979)

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Tree Number

  1. H02w.403w.014w

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NLM Classification

WS 460

AMA Style

References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Adolescent Medicine. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D000295. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D000295
  2. Adolescent Medicine. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolescent_medicine
  3. Adolescent Medicine. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4368243