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MeSH Heading: Encopresis
Tree Number(s): C23.888.821.266; F01.145.126.837; F03.388.300
Unique ID: D004688
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D004688
Annotation: of psychological origin: differentiate from FECAL INCONTINENCE, of organic origin
Scope Note: Incontinence of feces not due to organic defect or illness.
NLM Classification #: WI 600
Public MeSH Note: 69
History Note: 69(63)
Date Established: 1969/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2015/07/06

Allowable Qualifiers: blood (BL)

cerebrospinal fluid (CF)

chemically induced (CI)

classification (CL)

complications (CO)

diagnosis (DI)

diagnostic imaging (DG)

diet therapy (DH)

drug therapy (DT)

economics (EC)

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)

rehabilitation (RH)

surgery (SU)

therapy (TH)

urine (UR)

virology (VI)

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