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MeSH Heading: Electric Injuries
Tree Number(s): C26.324
Unique ID: D004556
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D004556
Annotation: consider also BURNS, ELECTRIC; accidental shock by electricity is ELECTRIC INJURIES, not ELECTROSHOCK (for exper shock by electricity usually in psychol lit)
Scope Note: Injuries caused by electric currents. The concept excludes electric burns (BURNS, ELECTRIC), but includes accidental electrocution and electric shock.
Entry Version: ELECTRIC INJ
Entry Term(s): Electrocution, Accidental; Injuries, Electric
Public MeSH Note: 73; was ELECTRIC INJURY 1963-72
Online Note: use ELECTRIC INJURIES to search ELECTRIC INJURY 1966-72
History Note: 73; was ELECTRIC INJURY 1963-72
Date Established: 1973/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2010/06/25

Allowable Qualifiers: blood (BL)

cerebrospinal fluid (CF)

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)

Electric Injuries MeSH Descriptor Data 2023