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MeSH Heading: Peritonsillar Abscess
Tree Number(s): C01.748.561.750.500; C01.830.025.675; C07.550.781.750.500; C08.730.561.750.500; C09.775.649.750.500
Unique ID: D000039
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000039
Annotation: coordinate IM with infection term (IM) but not BACTERIAL INFECTIONS (since most abscesses are bacterial)
Scope Note: An accumulation of purulent material in the area between the PALATINE TONSIL and its capsule.
Entry Term(s): Abscess, Peritonsillar
Public MeSH Note: 89; was ABSCESS, PERITONSILLAR 1963-88
Online Note: use PERITONSILLAR ABSCESS to search ABSCESS, PERITONSILLAR 1966-88
History Note: 89; was ABSCESS, PERITONSILLAR 1963-88
Date Established: 1989/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2019/06/17

Allowable Qualifiers: blood (BL)

cerebrospinal fluid (CF)

chemically induced (CI)

classification (CL)

complications (CO)

congenital (CN)

diagnosis (DI)

diagnostic imaging (DG)

diet therapy (DH)

drug therapy (DT)

economics (EC)

embryology (EM)

enzymology (EN)

epidemiology (EP)

ethnology (EH)

etiology (ET)

genetics (GE)

history (HI)

immunology (IM)

metabolism (ME)

microbiology (MI)

mortality (MO)

nursing (NU)

parasitology (PS)

pathology (PA)

physiopathology (PP)

prevention & control (PC)

psychology (PX)

radiotherapy (RT)

rehabilitation (RH)

surgery (SU)

therapy (TH)

transmission (TM)

urine (UR)

veterinary (VE)

virology (VI)

Peritonsillar Abscess MeSH Descriptor Data 2025