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MeSH Heading: Polycythemia
Tree Number(s): C15.378.738
Unique ID: D011086
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D011086
Annotation: increase in total red cell mass
Scope Note: An increase in the total red cell mass of the blood. (Dorland, 27th ed)
Entry Term(s): Erythrocytosis
NLM Classification #: WH 180
Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 1995/06/08

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)

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