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Rheumatology
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Descriptions
Rheumatology, a subspecialty of internal medicine, is devoted to the diagnosis and therapy of rheumatic diseases. The term originates from the Greek rheuma, meaning that which flows as a river or stream and the suffix -ology, meaning the study of. Rheumatologists mainly deal with problems involving the joints and the allied conditions of connective tissue. Copyright Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ for details. Source: Wikipedia, Rheumatology (Wikipedia)
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. Source: National Library of Medicine, MeSH 2006
Basic Part Properties
- Part Name
- Rheumatology
- Part Display Name
- Rheumatology
- Part Type
- Method (Describes the method by which the test was performed)
- Created On
- 2003-11-10
- Construct for LOINC Short Name
- Rheumatology
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Language Variants Get Info
| Tag | Language | Translation |
|---|---|---|
| nl-NL | Dutch (Netherlands) | reumatologie |
| it-IT | Italian (Italy) | Reumatologia |
| fr-BE | French (Belgium) | Rhumatologie |
| de-AT | German (Austria) | Rheumatologie |
| zh-CN | Chinese (China) | 风湿病学 |
| el-GR | Greek (Greece) | Ρευματολογία Synonyms: Ρευματολογία |
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