Disciplines and Occupations

General Surgery

A specialty in which manual or operative procedures are used in the treatment of disease, injuries, or deformities.

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Structured Summary

Abstract

A specialty in which manual or operative procedures are used in the treatment of disease, injuries, or deformities.

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Synonyms

2 entry terms
  • Surgery
  • Surgery, General

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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

use for the specialty only; prefer /surg with organs and diseases; use SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE or specifics for the surgery patient or surgical procedures

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History Note

2009 (1974)

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Tree Number

  1. H02w.403w.810.300w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. General Surgery. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D013502. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D013502
  2. General Surgery. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_surgery
  3. General Surgery. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q932510