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MeSH Heading: Hypoxia
Tree Number(s): C23.888.852.079
Unique ID: D000860
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000860
Annotation: do not confuse with HYPEROXIA; restrict to disease or clinical state in humans and vertebrates: do not use for anoxic or hypoxic state in invertebrates or micro-organisms (= OXYGEN or ANAEROBIOSIS); FETAL HYPOXIA, HYPOXIA, BRAIN and CELL HYPOXIA are also available
Scope Note: Sub-optimal OXYGEN levels in the ambient air of living organisms.
Entry Term(s): Anoxemia; Anoxia; Deficiency, Oxygen; Hypoxemia; Oxygen Deficiency
See Also: Hypoxia-Ischemia, Brain; Hypoxia, Brain
Public MeSH Note: 2017; for HYPOXIA see ANOXIA 1999-2016
History Note: 2017 (1966)
Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2016/07/07

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)

Hypoxia MeSH Descriptor Data 2023