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Angiology
Branch of internal medicine, which deals with vascular disease / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Vascular Medicine" redirects here. For the journals, see Angiology (journal) and Vascular Medicine (journal).
Angiology (from Greek ἀγγεῖον, angeīon, "vessel"; and -λογία, -logia) is the medical specialty dedicated to studying the circulatory system and of the lymphatic system, i.e., arteries, veins and lymphatic vessels.[1]
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System | Circulatory |
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Specialist | Angiologist |
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In the UK, this field is more often termed angiology, and in the United States the term vascular medicine is more frequent. The field of vascular medicine (angiology) is the field that deals with preventing, diagnosing, and treating lymphatic and blood vessel related diseases.[2]