单词 | physiatry |
释义 | physiatryn. Medicine (chiefly North American). A branch of medicine dealing with the treatment of injury, disability, and disease using exercise, massage, mechanical aids, and various other physical methods (electrotherapy, hydrotherapy, etc.). Also called physical medicine and rehabilitation. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > art or science of medicine > medical theories or doctrines > [noun] > other theories or doctrines Galenism1728 Hippocratism1779 Ayurveda1789 rationalism1800 solidism1832 pneumatism1838 Arabism1847 organicism1853 Thomsonianism1853 physiatrics1858 unicity1861 stoicheiology1875 contrastimulism1881 pangermism1887 nihilism1900 naturopathy1901 physiatry1947 orgonomy1949 bioethics1970 1947 Dorland's Med. Dict. (ed. 21) 1121/1 (heading) Physiatry... Physiatrics. 1955 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 61 23/2 Medicine..is incorporating into itself chiropractic principles and techniques, though under such new designations as ‘physical medicine’ and ‘physiatry’. 1977 W. S. Neff Work & Human Behavior xiv. 251 The rapidly developing specialties of physical medicine (physiatry, orthopedic surgery, prosthetic technology, industrial medicine, etc.). 1992 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 97 1013 The appropriateness of its modalities to the care of long-term and chronic patients left physiatry outside the priorities of acute-care medicine. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1947 |
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