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MeSH Heading: Gangrene
Tree Number(s): C23.550.717.427
Unique ID: D005734
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D005734
Annotation: IM for general or for gangrene process; coord NIM with tissue/pathol (IM)
Scope Note: Death and putrefaction of tissue usually due to a loss of blood supply.
Date Introduced: 1966/01/01
Last Updated: 1999/11/08

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)

Gangrene MeSH Descriptor Data 2026