Disciplines and Occupations

Medical Topography

The systematic surveying, mapping, charting, and description of specific geographical sites, with reference to the physical features that were presumed to influence health and disease. Medical topography should be differentiated from EPIDEMIOLOGY in that the former emphasizes geography whereas the latter emphasizes disease outbreaks.

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Abstract

The systematic surveying, mapping, charting, and description of specific geographical sites, with reference to the physical features that were presumed to influence health and disease. Medical topography should be differentiated from EPIDEMIOLOGY in that the former emphasizes geography whereas the latter emphasizes disease outbreaks.

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Synonyms

1 entry terms
  • Topography, Medical

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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

IM as the discipline (education, history, etc); use as an NIM coordinate with specific disease /epidemiol (IM) or medical or physiologic aspect (IM) + specific geographic locale; do not use for anatomical topography ( = organ /anat)

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  1. H01w.277w.500w.097w.500
  2. H02w.403w.352w.500

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Medical Topography. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D019371. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D019371
  2. Medical Topography. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q69956111