Aviation medicine

/ˌeɪvɪˈeɪʃən mˈɛdsən/

/ˌeɪvɪˈeɪʃən mˈɛdəsən/

Aviation medicine

a branch of medicine concerned with diseases and disturbances associated with psychological and physiological effects of flying in airplanes

synonyms : aeromedicine

aerospace medicine

Examples

1. Much more complicated than altitude or aviation medicine because the things behave very strangely when you're under tremendous pressure.

2. By the end of her military service in 1951 lieutenant Knight had over two years of overseas service assisting with air evacuation matters and became a flying liaison officer and instructor at the school of aviation medicine at Gunter Air Force base.