Topography, Medical

"Topography, Medical" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The systematic surveying, mapping, charting, and description of specific geographical sites, with reference to the physical features that were presumed to influence health and disease. Medical topography should be differentiated from EPIDEMIOLOGY in that the former emphasizes geography whereas the latter emphasizes disease outbreaks.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Topography, Medical" by people in this website by year, and whether "Topography, Medical" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 6 publications over 4 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 2010 and 2016
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