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MeSH Heading: Melena
Tree Number(s): A12.459.764; C06.405.227.600; C23.550.414.788.600
Unique ID: D008551
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D008551
Scope Note: The black, tarry, foul-smelling FECES that contain degraded blood.
Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2006/07/05

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)

Melena MeSH Descriptor Data 2025