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Physical Examination

"Physical Examination" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Systematic and thorough inspection of the patient for physical signs of disease or abnormality.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Physical Examination" by people in this website by year, and whether "Physical Examination" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 38 publications over 19 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2005
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