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MeSH Heading: Infant, Large for Gestational Age
Tree Number(s): M01.060.703.520.230
Unique ID: D000094522
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000094522
Annotation: check the tag INFANT, NEWBORN; do not confuse with FETAL MACROSOMIA or INFANT, POSTMATURE
Scope Note: Infants whose BIRTH WEIGHT is larger than the 90th percentile for a given gestational age.
Entry Term(s): High Birth Weight Infant; High-Birth-Weight Infant; Infant, Large-for-Gestational-Age; LGA Infant; Large for Gestational Age Infant; Large-for-Gestational-Age Infant
Previous Indexing: Fetal Macrosomia (1987-2022)
Public MeSH Note: 2023
History Note: 2023
Date Established: 2023/01/01
Date of Entry: 2022/07/12
Revision Date: 2022/07/11

Allowable Qualifiers: blood (BL)

cerebrospinal fluid (CF)

growth & development (GD)

immunology (IM)

metabolism (ME)

physiology (PH)

psychology (PX)

urine (UR)

Concept UI: M000756049
Scope Note: Infants whose BIRTH WEIGHT is larger than the 90th percentile for a given gestational age.
Terms: Infant, Large for Gestational Age Preferred Term
Term UI T001119509
Date03/31/2022
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2023); High-Birth-Weight Infant
Term UI T001119589
Date04/04/2022
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2023); Large-for-Gestational-Age Infant
Term UI T001120307
Date05/04/2022
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2023); Infant, Large-for-Gestational-Age
Term UI T001119588
Date04/04/2022
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2023); Large for Gestational Age Infant
Term UI T001120306
Date05/04/2022
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2023); High Birth Weight Infant
Term UI T001119586
Date04/04/2022
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2023); LGA Infant
Term UI T001119587
Date04/04/2022
LexicalTag ABX
ThesaurusID NLM (2023)

Infant, Large for Gestational Age MeSH Descriptor Data 2025