Disciplines and Occupations

Orthopedics

A specialty which utilizes medical, surgical, and physical methods to treat and correct deformities, diseases, and injuries to the skeletal system, its articulations, and associated structures.

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A specialty which utilizes medical, surgical, and physical methods to treat and correct deformities, diseases, and injuries to the skeletal system, its articulations, and associated structures.

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12 allowable subheadings

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

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specialty; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEURES is available for orthopedic therapeutic techniques

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  1. H02w.403w.810.494w

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WE 21

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Orthopedics. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D009985. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D009985
  2. Orthopedics. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthopedic_surgery
  3. Orthopedics. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q216685