medical specialty

branch of medicine concerning a specific group of diseases or population
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medical specialty

Summary

medical specialty is a second-order class[1]. It draws 9,969 Wikipedia views per month (second_order_class category, ranking #12 of 44).[2]

Key Facts

  • medical specialty's instance of is recorded as second-order class[3].
  • medical specialty is a type of branch of science[4].
  • medical specialty is a type of health specialty[5].
  • medical specialty is part of medicine[6].
  • medical specialty's Commons category is recorded as Medical specialties[7].
  • medical specialty's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Medical specialties[8].
  • medical specialty's equivalent class is recorded as https://schema.org/MedicalSpecialty[9].
  • medical specialty's NCI Thesaurus ID is recorded as C17153[10].
  • medical specialty's practiced by is recorded as medical specialist[11].

Body

Definition and Type

medical specialty's instance of is recorded as second-order class[3]. Recorded subclass of include branch of science[4] and health specialty[5].

Use and Application

medical specialty is part of medicine[6].

Why It Matters

medical specialty draws 9,969 Wikipedia views per month (second_order_class category, ranking #12 of 44).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12] It is known by 72 alternative names across languages and contexts.[13]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [13] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_medical-specialty_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{medical specialty}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/medical-specialty}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-08}}
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  1. 14d ago · عُثمان · 2026-09-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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