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Rheumatology
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Definition
: A subspecialty of internal medicine concerned with the study of inflammatory or degenerative processes and metabolic derangement of connective tissue structures which pertain to a variety of musculoskeletal disorders, such as arthritis.
SPEC only; SPEC qualif; field covers collagen dis, rheum dis & arthritis; DF: RHEUMATOL
See Also
Collagen Diseases
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Rheumatic Diseases