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MeSH Heading: Musculoskeletal Diseases
Tree Number(s): C05
Unique ID: D009140
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D009140
Annotation: general; prefer MUSCULAR DISEASES or BONE DISEASES or specifics
Scope Note: Diseases of the muscles and their associated ligaments and other connective tissue and of the bones and cartilage viewed collectively.
Entry Version: MUSCULOSKELETAL DIS
Entry Term(s): Orthopedic Disorders
Previous Indexing: Bone Diseases (1967-1991); Muscular Diseases (1967-1991); Musculoskeletal System (1966)
Public MeSH Note: 1992
History Note: 1992; was MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES (NON MESH) 1967-91
Date Established: 1992/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2018/02/28

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)

Musculoskeletal Diseases MeSH Descriptor Data 2025