loading...| Preferred Name |
Complementary Therapies |
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| Synonyms |
Medicine, Alternative Complementary Medicine |
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| Definitions |
Therapeutic practices which are not currently considered an integral part of conventional allopathic medical practice. They may lack biomedical explanations but as they become better researched some (PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; DIET; ACUPUNCTURE) become widely accepted whereas others (humors, radium therapy) quietly fade away, yet are important historical footnotes. Therapies are termed as Complementary when used in addition to conventional treatments and as Alternative when used instead of conventional treatment. |
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| ID |
http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/D000529 |
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| altLabel |
Medicine, Alternative Therapies, Complementary Therapy, Alternative Therapy, Complementary Medicine, Complementary Alternative Therapies Therapies, Alternative Alternative Medicine Complementary Medicine |
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| AN |
General or unspecified; prefer specifics; not for "alternative health care delivery system" (= DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE) or specific health service. |
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| AQL |
AE CL EC ED ES HI IS LJ MO MT NU OG PX SN ST TD VE |
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| cui |
C0936077 C1148474 C0002346 C0949216 |
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| DC |
1 |
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| definition |
Therapeutic practices which are not currently considered an integral part of conventional allopathic medical practice. They may lack biomedical explanations but as they become better researched some (PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; DIET; ACUPUNCTURE) become widely accepted whereas others (humors, radium therapy) quietly fade away, yet are important historical footnotes. Therapies are termed as Complementary when used in addition to conventional treatments and as Alternative when used instead of conventional treatment. Therapies are termed as Alternative when used instead of conventional treatment. |
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| DX |
19860101 |
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| HN |
2002(1986) |
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| Inverse of AQ |
http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000331 http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000266 http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000379 http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000706 http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000662 http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000009 http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000941 http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000191 http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000193 http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000145 http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000592 http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000295 http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000458 http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000451 http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/Q000639 |
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| Machine permutation |
2002; see ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE (1986-2001) |
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| MDA |
19850225 |
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| MMR |
20180629 |
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| MN |
E02.190 |
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| notation |
D000529 |
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| prefLabel |
Complementary Therapies |
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| TERMUI |
T001603 T001607 T001608 T001605 T001602 T001604 T001601 T001606 |
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| TH |
NLM (1996) NLM (1991) BIOETHICS (1989) UNK (19XX) NLM (1986) |
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| tui |
T091 T061 |
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| subClassOf |