Category:Medical services: Difference between revisions

An old infirmary with medical equipment used for patient rehabilitation

Practical medical services such as X-rays, prosthetics and sensory aids

Subcategories

• Clinical diagnosis - the determination of the nature or cause of a disease
• Computer aided diagnosis or CAD, medical procedures which use a computer to analyze biological data, most often used in the interpretation of medical images
• Health information management - the maintenance of health records through traditional or electronic-based methods
• In vitro - studies in experimental biology which use components of an organism isolated from their usual biological context
• In vivo - biological studies conducted with organisms in their usual, intact state, as contrasted with "in vitro" studies
• Medical diagnosis - attempting to identify a potential disease or disorder
• Medical signal detection - the use of large databases to discover and correlate adverse reactions to medical interventions
• Medical tests - any test designed to discover the type or nature of a disease
• Occupational medicine - medicine primarily concerned with ensuring the highest standards of safety and health at work
• Prosthetics - the use of an artificial device to replace a missing body part
• Sensory aids - devices which improve the reception of sense organs
• X-rays - a form of electromagnetic radiation that are shorter than UV rays but longer than gamma rays and that are used to see inside biological tissue