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GENIE MEDICAL [1 record]

Record 1 2006-10-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Medicine, Hygiene and Health
DEF

The combination of the disciplines of medicine and engineering to create a [discipline] able to address clinical and medical issues with the benefit of scientific engineering principles.

OBS

There is no universal agreement on the definition: many consider "medical engineering" and "biomedical engineering" to be synonymous. This acceptation of the term is used mainly in the United Kingdom.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Médecine générale, hygiène et santé
CONT

Les applications des sciences de l'ingénieur à la médecine (génie médical) [...] comprennent : la bioinstrumentation, le génie de la réhabilitation, l'imagerie médicale, les organes artificiels, les biomatériaux [et] l'informatique médicale.

OBS

La frontière entre «génie médical» et «génie biomédical» est plus floue aujourd'hui car un nombre croissant d'instruments médicaux touchent à des aspects beaucoup plus fondamentaux de la biologie.

OBS

Selon certains auteurs, «génie médical» a pour synonyme «génie clinique».

Spanish

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