Category:Medical services: Difference between revisions

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

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

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 == Subcategories ==
-*'''[[:Category:Clinical diagnosis|Clinical diagnosis]]''' - the determination of the nature of cause of a disease
+*'''[[:Category:Clinical diagnosis|Clinical diagnosis]]''' - the determination of the nature or cause of a disease
-*'''[[:Category:Computer aided diagnosis|Computer aided diagnosis]]''' or CAD, medical procedures which use a computer to analyze data, most often the interpretation of medical images
+*'''[[:Category:Computer aided diagnosis|Computer aided diagnosis]]''' or CAD, medical procedures which use a computer to analyze biological data, most often used in the interpretation of medical images
 *'''[[:Category:Health information management|Health information management]]''' - the maintenance of health records through traditional or electronic-based methods
 *'''[[:Category:In vitro|In vitro]]''' - studies in experimental biology which use components of an organism isolated from their usual biological context