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• Sudden outbreaks of a disease in a country or region not previously recognized in that area, or a rapid increase in the number of new cases of a previous existing endemic disease. Epidemics can also refer to outbreaks of disease in animal or plant populations.
• Annotation: coordinate IM with specific disease / epidemiol (IM) & specify geographic location if pertinent; differentiate from DISEASE OUTBREAKS, follow terminology in text

• A medical-surgical specialty concerned with management and care of women during pregnancy, parturition, and the puerperium.
• Annotation: specialty; do not use for Annotation specialty; do not use for so called obstetric diseases ( = probably PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, etc.)

Use for: Hospital Ships, Boats

• Annotation: use as a coordinate for non-medical aspects of sailors; for physiology, psychology, and diseases of sailors use NAVAL MEDICINE but see note there.
• Large vessels propelled by power or sail used for transportation on rivers, seas, oceans, or other navigable waters. Boats are smaller vessels propelled by oars, paddles, sail, or power; they may or may not have a deck.

Use for: Ships--Officers , Ships' physicians, Ship's surgeon, Navy surgeon, Ship's doctor, Naval physician, Naval doctor

• person responsible for the health of the people aboard a ship at sea --Wikidata Naval surgeon

Use for: Pap Smear, Pap Test, Papanicolaou Smear

• Cytological preparation of cells collected from a mucosal surface and stained with Papanicolaou stain.

• A specialty concerned with the nature and cause of disease as expressed by changes in cellular or tissue structure and function caused by the disease process.
• Annotation: use for the specialty only; use /‌pathol with organs & diseases

Use for: neurobiologist , neurobiólogo

• scientist who practices neurobiology

Use for: women winners of the Nobel Peace Prize, Nobel-Frauen

• Found in Work cat.: McGrayne, S.B. Nobel Prize women in science, 1998. Opfell, O.S. The lady laureates : women who have won the Nobel Prize, 1986. LC database, Nov. 9, 2006 (women scientists who won the Nobel Prize; Women Nobel Peace Prize winners; women winners of the Nobel Peace Prize; Nobel-Frauen)