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MeSH Heading: Ascorbic Acid Deficiency
Tree Number(s): C18.654.521.500.133.115
Unique ID: D001206
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001206
Scope Note: A condition due to a dietary deficiency of ascorbic acid (vitamin C), characterized by malaise, lethargy, and weakness. As the disease progresses, joints, muscles, and subcutaneous tissues may become the sites of hemorrhage. Ascorbic acid deficiency frequently develops into SCURVY in young children fed unsupplemented cow's milk exclusively during their first year. It develops also commonly in chronic alcoholism. (Cecil Textbook of Medicine, 19th ed, p1177)
Entry Version: ASCORBIC ACID DEFIC
Entry Term(s): Deficiency, Ascorbic Acid; Deficiency, Vitamin C; Vitamin C Deficiency
NLM Classification #: QU 210
See Also: Scurvy
Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2003/07/09

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)

Concept UI: M0001803
Scope Note: A condition due to a dietary deficiency of ascorbic acid (vitamin C), characterized by malaise, lethargy, and weakness. As the disease progresses, joints, muscles, and subcutaneous tissues may become the sites of hemorrhage. Ascorbic acid deficiency frequently develops into SCURVY in young children fed unsupplemented cow's milk exclusively during their first year. It develops also commonly in chronic alcoholism. (Cecil Textbook of Medicine, 19th ed, p1177)
Terms: Ascorbic Acid Deficiency Preferred Term
Term UI T003600
Date01/01/1999
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1966); Deficiency, Ascorbic Acid
Term UI T003599
Date01/01/1986
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID UNK (19XX); Deficiency, Vitamin C
Term UI T003601
Date11/08/1988
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID UNK (19XX); Vitamin C Deficiency
Term UI T003602
Date11/10/1992
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1994)

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