History, Medieval
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Monday, November 23, 2009

The departmental chair in Western medicine: tale of the first and foremost. Historical vignette.

30 Oct 2009 The use of the term "chair" in medical literature probably started in the Late Middle Ages with the Italian anatomist Mondino de Liuzzi. History reveals the term's origin at Bologna, one of the oldest degree-granting universities in Europe. Nobody ... Read more...

Genetic continuity after the collapse of the Wari empire: mitochondrial DNA profiles from Wari and post-Wari populations in the ancient Andes.

30 Aug 2009 The Wari empire flourished in the central, highland Peruvian Andes from AD 600-1000, and although the events that led to its demise are unknown, archaeological evidence indicates that Wari control waned at the end of the first millennium. Here, we ... Read more...

Sources of nutrients to windward agricultural systems in pre-contact Hawai'i.

30 Aug 2009 Prior to European contact in 1778, Hawaiians developed intensive irrigated pondfield agricultural systems in windward Kohala, Hawai'i. We evaluated three potential sources of nutrients to windward systems that could have sustained intensive ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'History, Medieval'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• The departmental chair in Western medicine: tale of the first and foremost. Historical vignette. 30 Oct 2009
• Uses and limitations of genetic data relating to Athapaskan migrations: a reply to Seymour. 29 Sep 2009
• Archaeology: Maya, Khmer and Inca. 22 Sep 2009
• [Medical sculpture mystery. Images from travel II. An ideal physician. Guy de Chauliac, François Rabelais and others] 21 Sep 2009
• The intriguing case of Christina the Astonishing. 13 Sep 2009
• Genetic continuity after the collapse of the Wari empire: mitochondrial DNA profiles from Wari and post-Wari populations in the ancient Andes. 30 Aug 2009
• Sources of nutrients to windward agricultural systems in pre-contact Hawai'i. 30 Aug 2009
• Legal controls of the medical profession. 30 Aug 2009
• Influence of endocrine surgery on general surgery and surgical science. 30 Aug 2009
• [A reflection on internal medicine] 30 Aug 2009
• Surgical scalpel used in the treatment of "infantile hydrocephalus" by Al Zahrawi (936-1013 A.D.: ). 30 Aug 2009
• The blind man and the paralytic boy of lesnovo: diagnosis of borderline lepromatous leprosy after 660 years? 30 Aug 2009
• Anatomy, technology, art, and culture: toward a realistic perspective of the brain. 30 Aug 2009
• 2,000-year-long temperature and hydrology reconstructions from the Indo-Pacific warm pool. 25 Aug 2009
• [Mummy preparates as medicinal tools] 7 Aug 2009
• The evolution of light skin color: role of vitamin D disputed. 30 Jul 2009
• Test of the relationship between sutural ossicles and cultural cranial deformation: results from Hawikuh, New Mexico. 30 Jul 2009
• Hydrotherapy in state mental hospitals in the mid-twentieth century. 30 Jul 2009
• Hypermobility in an ancient Peruvian ceramic. 30 Jul 2009
• Reflections on the carotid artery: 438 BC to 2009 AD: the Karolinska 2008 Award Lecture in stroke research. 14 Jul 2009

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Technical information about 'History, Medieval'

Definition: The period of history from the year 500 through 1450 of the common era.

Descriptor UI: D049691

Alternative terms: History, Medieval; Medieval History; History of Medicine, Renaissance; Medicine, Renaissance; Renaissance Medicine; History of Medicine, Medieval; Medicine, Medieval History; History Medicine, Medieval; Medieval History Medicine; Medieval History (Medicine); Histories, Medieval (Medicine); History, Medieval (Medicine); Medieval Histories (Medicine);

Tree Number: K01.400.500;

History Note: 2005

Technical Notes: IM general only; NIM as check tag