Disciplines and Occupations

Nephrology

A subspecialty of internal medicine concerned with the anatomy, physiology, and pathology of the kidney.

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Abstract

A subspecialty of internal medicine concerned with the anatomy, physiology, and pathology of the kidney.

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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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History Note

80

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Previous Indexing

  • Kidney Diseases (1966-1979)

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  1. H02w.403w.429w.580w

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NLM Classification

WJ 21

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Nephrology. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D009398. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D009398
  2. Nephrology. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephrology
  3. Nephrology. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q177635