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MeSH Heading: Infant Nutrition Disorders
Tree Number(s): C18.654.422
Unique ID: D007228
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D007228
Annotation: general or unspecified; prefer specific disease with infant check tag
Scope Note: Disorders caused by nutritional imbalance, either overnutrition or undernutrition, occurring in infants ages 1 month to 24 months.
Entry Version: INFANT NUTRITION DIS
Entry Term(s): Infant Malnutrition; Infant Overnutrition; Infantile Malnutrition; Malnutrition in Infant; Malnutrition, Infant; Nutrition Disorders, Infant
NLM Classification #: WS 120
See Also: Child Nutrition Disorders
Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2003/07/09

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)

Concept UI: M0439620
Scope Note: Malnutrition, occurring in infants ages 1 month to 24 months, which is due to insufficient intake of food, dietary nutrients, or a pathophysiologic condition which prevents the absorption and utilization of food. Growth and development are markedly affected.
Terms: Infant Malnutrition Preferred Term
Term UI T521785
Date10/09/2002
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2004); Infantile Malnutrition
Term UI T521787
Date10/09/2002
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2004); Malnutrition in Infant
Term UI T521788
Date10/09/2002
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2004); Malnutrition, Infant
Term UI T521786
Date10/09/2002
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2004)

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