Lineages of language and the diagnosis of asthma

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 19-24

  Netuveli, Gopalakrishnan ^a   Hurwitz, Brian ^b   Sheikh, Aziz ^c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTHMA; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COUGHING; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNICITY; EUROPE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; NOMENCLATURE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVIEW; SEMANTICS; SPELLING; WHEEZING; WORD RECOGNITION;

ASTHMA; COUGH; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; RESPIRATORY SOUNDS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 33847728724     PISSN: 01410768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/jrsm.100.1.19     Document Type: Review

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