Medicine

Pages in this category should be moved to subcategories where applicable. This category may require frequent maintenance to avoid becoming too large. It should directly contain very few, if any, pages and should mainly contain subcategories.

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Library cataloging and classification
main topic	medicine
Colon	L
Dewey Decimal	610
Library of Congress	R
Universal Decimal	61

Medicine is a branch of health science concerned with maintaining human health and restoring it by treating disease and injury; it is both an area of knowledge, a science of body systems and diseases and their treatment, and the applied practice of that knowledge.

NOTE: Most of the articles pertaining to the actual work and practice of medicine are located in Category:Clinical medicine and its subcategories, such as Category:Medical diagnosis and Category:Medical treatments, along with Category:Diseases and disorders. Articles pertaining to non-conventional approaches are located in Category:Alternative medicine.