Disciplines and Occupations

Rheumatology

A subspecialty of internal medicine concerned with the study of inflammatory or degenerative processes and metabolic derangement of connective tissue structures which pertain to a variety of musculoskeletal disorders, such as arthritis.

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A subspecialty of internal medicine concerned with the study of inflammatory or degenerative processes and metabolic derangement of connective tissue structures which pertain to a variety of musculoskeletal disorders, such as arthritis.

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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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Previous Indexing

  • Rheumatism (1966-1979)

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  1. H02w.403w.429w.730w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Rheumatology. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D012219. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D012219
  2. Rheumatology. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rheumatology
  3. Rheumatology. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q327657