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MeSH Heading: Paleopathology
Tree Number(s): I01.076.368.584.709
Unique ID: D010164
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D010164
Annotation: specialty; used also as NIM coordinate; check tags HISTORICAL ARTICLE, and ANCIENT HISTORY or MEDIEVAL HISTORY; for prehistory, ANCIENT HISTORY tag is all right; paleopathology is for pre-Columbian, nothing later; consider also MUMMIES /‌pathol and do not coordinate with PALEOPATHOLOGY
Scope Note: The study of disease in prehistoric times as revealed in bones, mummies, and archaeologic artifacts.
Entry Version: PALEOPATHOL
Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2009/07/13

Allowable Qualifiers: classification (CL)

economics (EC)

education (ED)

ethics (ES)

history (HI)

instrumentation (IS)

legislation & jurisprudence (LJ)

methods (MT)

organization & administration (OG)

standards (ST)

statistics & numerical data (SN)

trends (TD)

Paleopathology MeSH Descriptor Data 2025