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n. A specialty within a specialty.
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A subspecialty is a narrow field within a specialty such as forensic pathology, which is a subspecialty of anatomical pathology. A subspecialist is a specialist of a subspecialty.
In medicine, subspecialization is particularly common in internal medicine, cardiology, and neurology, and has grown as medicine has:
- become more complex, and
- it has become clear that a physician's case volume is negatively associated with their complication rate; that is, complications tend to decrease as the volume of cases per physician goes up.
Usage examples of "subspecialty".
Ear, nose, and throat is a surgical subspecialty, and I do surgery at least three mornings a week.
Our relationship has always had that competitive edgeespecially since we wound up in exactly the same subspecialty, directly competing for patients.
I can do that to a certain degree, but my own subspecialty is authorship.
It is a lot like psychiatry, or dentistry, in its inferior status as a subspecialty of medicine.
They choose this subspecialty in medicine because they are failed doctors, failed fathers, failed mothers, failed lovers, failed human beings.
In fact, the Hmong view of health care seemed to me to be precisely the opposite of the prevailing American one, in which the practice of medicine has fissioned into smaller and smaller subspecialties, with less and less truck between bailiwicks.
I did well in all the engineering subspecialties, but Piersuh, Chief Barklinsaid I had a good feel for space drives.
A subspecialty had evolved in which a few very good and very nasty trial lawyers pursued their brethren for bad settlements.
In Virginia, each of the four district offices has forensic pathologists who are medical doctors trained in pathology and the subspecialty of forensic pathology, training that involves ten years of postgraduate edu.
In Virginia, each of the four district offices has forensic pathologists who are medical doctors trained in pathology and the subspecialty of forensic pathology, training that involves ten years of postgraduate education, not counting three additional years if the forensic pathologist also wants a law degree.
I have a specialty in pathology and a subspecialty in forensic pathology, as you've already stipulated, Mr.
I did well in all the engineering subspecialties, but Piers—uh, Chief Barklin—said I had a good feel for space drives.
Three at least, probably fiveI'm not sure what some of these subspecialties mean.