What's the difference between medicine and nephrology?

Medicine


Definition:

  • (n.) The science which relates to the prevention, cure, or alleviation of disease.
  • (n.) Any substance administered in the treatment of disease; a remedial agent; a remedy; physic.
  • (n.) A philter or love potion.
  • (n.) A physician.
  • (v. t.) To give medicine to; to affect as a medicine does; to remedy; to cure.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, medicines have an important part to play, and it is now generally agreed that for the very poor populations medicines should be restricted to those on an 'essential drugs list' and should be made available as cheaply as possible.
  • (2) Herbalists in Baja California Norte, Mexico, were interviewed to determine the ailments and diseases most frequently treated with 22 commonly used medicinal plants.
  • (3) The very young history of clinical Psychology is demonstrating the value of clinical Psychologist in the socialistic healthy work and the international important positions of special education to psychological specialist of medicine.
  • (4) Current status of prognosis in clinical, experimental and prophylactic medicine is delineated with formulation of the purposes and feasibility of therapeutic and preventive realization of the disease onset and run prediction.
  • (5) GlaxoSmithKline was unusually critical of the decision by Nice, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, and also the Scottish Medicines Consortium, to reject its drug belimumab (brand name Benlysta) in final draft guidance.
  • (6) After friends heard that he was on them, Brumfield started observing something strange: “If we had people over to the Super Bowl or a holiday season party, I’d notice that my medicines would come up short, no matter how good friends they were.” Twice people broke into his house to get to the drugs.
  • (7) Intoxications arising from therapeutic activities pertaining to this cult are of the same kind as those encountered in the practice of Modern Medicine.
  • (8) They operate on a mystical and symbolic plane, which is foreign to the practice of "Western" medicine.
  • (9) Whenever you are ill and a medicine is prescribed for you and you take the medicine until balance is achieved in you and then you put that medicine down.” Farrakhan does not dismiss the doctrine of the past, but believes it is no longer appropriate for the present.
  • (10) Silufol plates can be used for the control of the production of vitamins, their analysis in varying biological objects, as well as in biochemistry, medicine and pharmaceutics.
  • (11) Federal endorsement of the HMO concept has resulted in broad understanding of a number of concepts unknown in fee-for-service medicine.
  • (12) In a retrospective study 94 consecutive patients with verified empyema caused by pneumonia were admitted to the department of either pulmonary medicine or thoracic surgery.
  • (13) In 1968, nearly 60% of the malignant ovarian tumors were treated by doctors in internal medicine, surgery and radiology etc., rather than gynecology, which was partly because the primary site of the cancer was unknown during the clinical course and partly because the gynecologist gave up treatment of patients in advanced cases.
  • (14) Further development of meta-analysis in such an expanded way may have an important impact on decision-making in clinical medicine, and in health policies.
  • (15) It’s useless if we try and fight with them through force, so we try and fight with them through humour.” “There is a saying that laughing is the best form of medicine.
  • (16) This continuing influence of Nazi medicine raises profound questions for the epistemology and morality of medicine.
  • (17) Yet very little research information or published material is available on the extent of utilization behaviour of Siddha medicine in urban settings.
  • (18) While medicine must respond to those who enter that house, it is the social level at which we must be the architects of change.
  • (19) Questions received by the center have covered all facets of animal medicine and management.
  • (20) Positive results were rather less common in black patients born in the tropics attending a genitourinary medicine in London and were similar to findings in blood donors in the West Indies.

Nephrology


Definition:

  • (n.) A treatise on, or the science which treats of, the kidneys, and their structure and functions.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) induced by mitomycin C, collected from 1976 to 1982 in 12 Nephrology Centers.
  • (2) Nephrology fellows performed 83.5% of the biopsies.
  • (3) Seventeen patients with different nephrologic disorders or hypertension were first studied with OIH and then reinvestigated with MAG3 2-8 days later.
  • (4) In our judgment, gravidas with established SLE should be managed in a perinatal program with an expertise available for careful systematic fetal monitoring; ready access to consultants in nephrology, rheumatology, and other relevant disciplines; and inpatient facilities for complicated gestations.
  • (5) To provide a realistic picture of the patient case load of a pediatric nephrologist in a teaching hospital, we analyzed the number, the demographics, and the reasons for patient referral to our pediatric nephrology program over a 10-year period.
  • (6) It may be excepted that their therapeutic application will in the near future be extended also to clinical nephrology.
  • (7) Plasma exchanges are indicated in several diseases in children, mainly immunologic, hematologic and nephrologic disorders.
  • (8) The data of 300 children followed up for a wide bladder neck and posterior urethra at the Nephrology Clinic of Heim Pál Children's Hospital, Budapest, are reviewed.
  • (9) Prospective controlled study in patients with edema referred to a nephrology clinic.
  • (10) The authors have studied the cost of the different treatments proposed in ESRD to patients attended by the same nephrologic team.
  • (11) The application and use of radio-isotopes in nephrology have been neglected by clinicians.
  • (12) The results of a survey designed to identify existing images of nephrology nursing practice are reported.
  • (13) The CO2 laser was used successfully for surgery in 43 nephrologic patients.
  • (14) This report describes a 23-year experience with renal transplantation in infants, children, and adolescents at the Children's Renal Center of the Division of Pediatric Nephrology at The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.
  • (15) Financial disincentives by DRGs may affect both the access and quality of care for groups of nephrology patients in the future.
  • (16) Such an approach will keep a constant turnover of patients and will help in research efforts toward better understanding of problems in nephrology.
  • (17) ), increased number of patients with dysuria or sterile leukocyturia gave stimulus to studies of 615 patients from Department of Nephrology and District Outpatient Nephrological Care Unit with regard to infections with that microbes.
  • (18) Skilled anesthesia, consultative support in nephrology, respirology, pediatrics and infectious diseases, a blood bank, access to human allograft and good microbiology support are necessary.
  • (19) In a strictly selected material of 80 patients, who were all outpatients of a special nephrological clinic, with chronic renal insufficiency with retention values of 1.4-14.5 mg% serum creatinine, an EEG was done besides thorough neurological and internal examinations.
  • (20) Some neurophysiological techniques have been employed in clinical nephrology to record abnormalities of nervous conduction in central and peripheral pathways.

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