medical electronics

Japanese: medical electronics（英語表記）medicalelectronics

...This refers to electronic devices used in the medical field, and the field that conducts research and development of such medical devices is called ME (short for medical engineering).
[Definition and field of ME]
In 1958, when the International Conference on Biomedical Engineering was held in Paris, ME was defined as medical electronics. Therefore, in the narrow sense, ME often refers to ME equipment, that is, medical electronic equipment.

*Some of the terminology that refers to "medical electronics" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…医学領域で用いられる電子機器をいい，このような医用機器の研究･開発を行う分野をME(medical engineeringの略)という。
［MEの定義および分野］
　1958年に，医用生体工学に関する国際会議がパリで開かれたとき，MEとはmedical electronicsとされた。そこで，狭い意味でMEというとME機器，すなわち医用電子機器をさすことが多い。…

※「medical electronics」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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