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MeSH Heading: Emaciation
Tree Number(s): C23.888.144.828.500
Unique ID: D004614
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D004614
Scope Note: Clinical manifestation of excessive LEANNESS usually caused by disease or a lack of nutrition (MALNUTRITION).
See Also: HIV Wasting Syndrome; Protein-Energy Malnutrition; Wasting Syndrome
Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2022/05/20

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)

Emaciation MeSH Descriptor Data 2023