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internal medicine

(Encyclopedia) internal medicine, branch of medicine concerned with nonsurgical remedies for diseases of the internal organs. While the internist is trained to diagnose and treat all pathologies of…

Taussig, Helen Brooke

(Encyclopedia) Taussig, Helen Brooke, 1898–1986, American physician, b. Cambridge, Mass., M.D. Johns Hopkins Univ., 1927. She spent her entire career at Johns Hopkins, where she founded the field of…

pediatrics

(Encyclopedia) pediatricspediatricspēdēăˈtrĭks [key], branch of medicine dedicated to the attainment of the best physical, emotional, and social health for infants, children, and young people…

ultrasound

(Encyclopedia) ultrasound or sonography, in medicine, technique that uses sound waves to study and treat hard-to-reach body areas. In scanning with ultrasound, high-frequency sound waves are…

heart, in anatomy

(Encyclopedia) CE5 Cross section of heart, with arrows indicating direction of blood flow heart, muscular organ that pumps blood to all parts of the body. The rhythmic beating of the heart is a…