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MeSH Heading: Metaplasia
Tree Number(s): C23.550.589
Unique ID: D008679
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D008679
Annotation: NIM; coord with organ /‌pathol (IM)
Scope Note: A condition in which there is a change of one adult cell type to another similar adult cell type.
Date Introduced: 1966/01/01
Last Updated: 2008/07/08

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)

Metaplasia MeSH Descriptor Data 2026