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MeSH Heading: Muscular Atrophy
Tree Number(s): C10.597.613.612; C23.300.070.500; C23.888.592.608.612
Unique ID: D009133
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D009133
Annotation: MUSCULAR ATROPHY, SPINAL is also available
Scope Note: Derangement in size and number of muscle fibers occurring with aging, reduction in blood supply, or following immobilization, prolonged weightlessness, malnutrition, and particularly in denervation.
Entry Term(s): Atrophy, Muscle; Neurogenic Muscular Atrophy; Neurotrophic Muscular Atrophy
NLM Classification #: WE 550
See Also: Muscular Disorders, Atrophic
Date Introduced: 1966/01/01
Last Updated: 1999/11/04

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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)

Muscular Atrophy MeSH Descriptor Data 2026