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Western medicine

Class type of: medicine, Western culture Q11629020

Facts

5 properties
Instance of
academic discipline
Location
Western world[4]
Subclass of
medicine, Western culture
Opposite of
traditional Asian medicine[7]
Said to be the same as
biomedicine, scientific medicine[5][6]
🏷️ Also known as
en Western medicine he הרפואה המערבית he רפואה מערבית ja 主流医学 ja 生物医学 ja 西洋医学 ja 西洋医療 tr Batı tıbbı zh 西醫 zh-hans 西医
🔖 Identifiers · 2
Baidu Tieba name
西医
Google Knowledge Graph ID
/g/121hg4d7

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Summary

Western medicine is an academic discipline[1]. It is a type of medicine[2] and Western culture[3].

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  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 22d ago · Artoria2e5 · 2026-10-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Said to be the same as → biomedicine, scientific medicine
    Baidu Tieba name → 西医
    Opposite of → traditional Asian medicine
    Google Knowledge Graph ID → /g/121hg4d7
    + 3 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Created claim: Said to be the same as: scientific medicine"
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