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MeSH Heading: Calcinosis
Tree Number(s): C18.452.174.130
Unique ID: D002114
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D002114
Annotation: coordinate with organ/diseases term; for calcinosis of the heart, coordinate with CARDIOMYOPATHIES, not HEART DISEASES
Scope Note: Pathologic deposition of calcium salts in tissues.
Entry Term(s): Calcification, Pathologic; Calcinosis, Tumoral; Microcalcification; Microcalcinosis; Pathologic Calcification
See Also: Chondrocalcinosis
Public MeSH Note: CALCIPHYLAXIS was heading 1965-83
Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2016/06/13

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)

Calcinosis MeSH Descriptor Data 2023