Need definition of general surgery.
Also Nephrology.
School project for my HS soph daughter.
Go to Merriam-Webster
Thanks but they don’t list two word terms.
General Surgery is that preformed by a general surgeon. These would be commonly done procedures, not necessarily simple.
Nephrology is the study of the kidneys and their function. A Nephrologist is a physican specializing in diseases of, and related to the kidneys.
I hope this helps.
Go to google, enter “define general surgery” or maybe “general surgery” or both and compare results. General as opposed to special.
Also try “nephrolog”
Web Definition: Nephrology - A medical specialty concerned with the kidneys and especially with their structure, functions, or diseases.
Dogpile, and yahoo also good sources of information. One for one thing and another for something else. I somtimes try all three and also vary the input terms for best results.
“Beware of the Cog”
Nephrology - study of diseases of the kidney
General Surgery - this is harder to define concisely. I’d say, that branch of surgery dealing with common and ‘single system’ surgical problems such as appendicitis, gall bladders, hernias, and selected bowel conditions. (It’s easier to say what general surgery isn’t: it’s not vascular, cardiac, orthopedic, neurosurgery, etc.)
The general surgeons I’ve worked with did some thyroid surgery too. But they generally also stayed out of the thoracic cavity.
Hi Steve!
[Steven Wright] That’s when they don’t operate on anything specific. [/SW]
Just to further define things. Roughly, medical practice is divided into a “medicine” arm and a “surgery” arm. These divisions are old – the medicine guys like to say that they take their descent from the physicians and anatomists since Galen while the surgeons take theirs from the chirurgeon-barbers of the Middle Ages. It is obviously not that black-and-white, though.
In the US, after 4 years of medical training in medical school, one receives an M.D., but is not qualified to practice until one does at least a year of post-graduate study, called an internship, and passes some licensing exams. These internships can be stand-alone or part of a multi-year residency program, which trains you to be specialized. These (generally) maintain the medicine/surgery breakpoint, with OB/Gyn straddling the two and others in neither (radiology, pathology, anesthesiology).
Most medicine specialities (with certain notable exceptions: pediatrics, psychiatry, neurology) do a three to four year medicine residency (including the intern year). After this, one can do fellowships to specialize further – nephrology (kidneys), cardiology (heart), gastroenterology (guts), pulmonary (lungs), endocrinology (hormonal system), rheumatology (joints and immune system).
Surgery specialities work the exact same way. There are some notable exceptions – ophthalmology (eyes), some plastics programs, some orthopedics programs, dermatology (skin), urology (urinary system and prostate). Most do a five year surgery program, at the end of which you are a general surgeon. Then, one can specialize further – cardiothoracic, neurosurgery (actually this one is a little more complicated), vascular, etc.
Thanks everyone.