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internal medicine

medical specialty dealing with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases of internal organs
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Summary

internal medicine is a medical specialty[1]. It draws 7,228 Wikipedia views per month (medical specialty category, ranking #39 of 177).[2]

Key Facts

  • Instance of: academic discipline[3], general practitioner[4]
  • Subclass of: medicine[5]
  • Commons category: Internal medicine[6]
  • Has part(s): pulmonology[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Internal medicine[8], Q13390920[9]
  • OpenStreetMap tag: healthcare:speciality=internal[10]
  • Described by source: Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[11], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[12]
  • Different from: family medicine[13]
  • Practiced by: internist[14], adult nurse practitioner[15]
  • P10203: 2724[16]

Why It Matters

internal medicine has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17] It is known by 44 alternative names across languages and contexts.[18]

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Directory of Open Access Journals. wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Q24768074. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . All Science Journal Classification Codes. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [18] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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