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Aerospace Medicine MeSH Descriptor Data 2025


MeSH Heading
Aerospace Medicine
Tree Number(s)
H02.403.029
Unique ID
D000337
RDF Unique Identifier
http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000337
Annotation
specialty; med, physiol or psychol aspects of AVIATION go here but med, physiol or psychol aspects of space flight go under SPACE FLIGHT or other space related terms: Manual 28.8; DF: AEROSPACE MED
Scope Note
That branch of medicine dealing with the studies and effects of flight through the atmosphere or in space upon the human body and with the prevention or cure of physiological or psychological malfunctions arising from these effects. (from NASA Thesaurus)
Entry Version
AEROSPACE MED
Entry Term(s)
Aviation Medicine
Medicine, Aerospace
Medicine, Aviation
Medicine, Space
Space Medicine
Previous Indexing
Space Flight (1975-1979)
See Also
Accidents, Aviation
Altitude
Decompression Sickness
Space Flight
Public MeSH Note
80; was see SPACE FLIGHT 1975-79; AVIATION MEDICINE was heading 1963-79; AVIATION DENTISTRY was heading 1965-79
Online Note
search SPACE FLIGHT 1975-79; use AEROSPACE MEDICINE to search AVIATION MEDICINE 1966-74; use AEROSPACE MEDICINE + DENTISTRY to search AVIATION DENTISTRY 1966-79
History Note
80; was see SPACE FLIGHT 1975-79; AVIATION MEDICINE was heading 1963-79; AVIATION DENTISTRY was heading 1965-79
Date Established
1980/01/01
Date of Entry
1979/05/29
Revision Date
2017/07/11
Aerospace Medicine Preferred
Aviation Medicine Narrower
Medicine, Space Narrower
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