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MeSH Heading: Surgical Wound
Tree Number(s): C26.859
Unique ID: D000072836
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000072836
Scope Note: An incision made during a surgical procedure.
Entry Term(s): Surgical Incision
NLM Classification #: WO 185
Previous Indexing: Surgical Wound Infection (1963-2016); Wound Healing (1963-2016)
Public MeSH Note: 2017
History Note: 2017
Date Established: 2017/01/01
Date of Entry: 2016/07/08
Revision Date: 2016/07/01

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)

urine (UR)

veterinary (VE)

virology (VI)

Surgical Wound MeSH Descriptor Data 2025