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Ophthalmology

"Ophthalmology" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A surgical specialty concerned with the structure and function of the eye and the medical and surgical treatment of its defects and diseases.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Ophthalmology" by people in this website by year, and whether "Ophthalmology" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 39 publications over 16 distinct years, with a maximum of 5 publications in 2020 and 2022 and 2023
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