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Tropical medicine   /trˈɑpɪkəl mˈɛdəsən/   Listen
Tropical medicine

noun
1.
The branch of medicine that deals with the diagnosis and treatment of diseases that are found most often in tropical regions.





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"Tropical medicine" Quotes from Famous Books



... victims by their sting. He recognized the fact that yellow fever is not contagious and therefore could not think of the possibility of man-to-man infection, as we know it to-day. The keenest observer was this man Beauperthuy, and, even at that benighted time in the history of tropical medicine, made most interesting studies of the blood and tissues, employing the microscope and the chemical reactions in his research. No one believed him, and a commission appointed to report upon his views said that they were inadmissible and ...
— Popular Science Monthly Volume 86


Words linked to "Tropical medicine" :   medicine, medical specialty


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