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MeSH Heading: Metabolic Diseases
Tree Number(s): C18.452
Unique ID: D008659
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D008659
Annotation: general or unspecified; prefer specifics; differentiate from DEFICIENCY DISEASES
Scope Note: Generic term for diseases caused by an abnormal metabolic process. It can be congenital due to inherited enzyme abnormality (METABOLISM, INBORN ERRORS) or acquired due to disease of an endocrine organ or failure of a metabolically important organ such as the liver. (Stedman, 26th ed)
Entry Version: METAB DIS
Entry Term(s): Diseases, Metabolic; Thesaurismosis
Entry Combination: congenital:Metabolism, Inborn Errors
Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2018/02/28

Entry Combination: congenital:Metabolism, Inborn Errors
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)

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)

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