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Medical Waste

"Medical Waste" 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.

Blood, mucus, tissue removed at surgery or autopsy, soiled surgical dressings, and other materials requiring special disposal procedures.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Medical Waste" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Medical Waste" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
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