medicine

field of study for diagnosing, treating and preventing disease
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medicine
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medicine

Summary

medicine is a field of study[1]. medicine ranks in the top 2% of field_of_study entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,026 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • medicine's instance of is recorded as field of study[3].
  • medicine's instance of is recorded as academic discipline[4].
  • medicine's instance of is recorded as field of work[5].
  • medicine's instance of is recorded as academic major[6].
  • medicine is a type of health sciences[7].
  • medicine is part of life sciences[8].
  • medicine's Commons category is recorded as Medicine[9].
  • medicine's industry is recorded as health care industry[10].
  • medicine is the opposite of alternative medicine[11].
  • medicine's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Medicine[12].
  • medicine's Commons gallery is recorded as Medicine[13].
  • medicine's topic's main Wikimedia portal is recorded as Portal:Medicine[14].
  • medicine's described by source is recorded as Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron[15].
  • medicine's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[16].
  • medicine's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[17].
  • medicine's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[18].
  • medicine's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[19].
  • medicine's described by source is recorded as Gujin Tushu Jicheng[20].
  • medicine's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[21].
  • medicine's described by source is recorded as American Medical Biographies[22].
  • medicine's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[23].
  • medicine's topic has template is recorded as Template:Medicine[24].
  • medicine's topic has template is recorded as Template:Medicine navs[25].
  • medicine's has characteristic is recorded as medical attribute[26].
  • medicine's different from is recorded as Medicine[27].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include field of study[3], academic discipline[4], field of work[5], and academic major[6]. medicine is a type of health sciences[7]. medicine is the opposite of alternative medicine[11].

Use and Application

medicine is part of life sciences[8].

Influence

Things named for medicine include transmedicalism[28], a social movement[29].

Why It Matters

medicine ranks in the top 2% of field_of_study entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,026 views/month).[2] medicine has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] medicine is known by 18 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]

Entities named for medicine include transmedicalism[28], a social movement[29].

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . Q1227538. wikidata.org.
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  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [28] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [30] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [31] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 8d ago · TiagoLubiana · 2026-05-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P14357]]: topic_3303, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289759086|Medicine (#289759086)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7899|EDAM Ontology]] #mi"
  2. 15d ago · Mahir256 · 2026-05-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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