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MeSH Heading: Vasculitis
Tree Number(s): C14.907.940
Unique ID: D014657
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014657
Annotation: general or unspecified; consider SYSTEMIC VASCULITIS; ARTERITIS; or PHLEBITIS & their indentions; VASCULITIS, HEMORRHAGIC see PURPURA, SCHOENLEIN-HENOCH is also available
Scope Note: Inflammation of any one of the blood vessels, including the ARTERIES; VEINS; and rest of the vasculature system in the body.
Entry Term(s): Angiitis
Previous Indexing: Arteritis (1966-1977); Periarteritis Nodosa (1966-1977)
Public MeSH Note: 1978
History Note: 1978
Date Established: 1978/01/01
Date of Entry: 1977/04/27
Revision Date: 2009/07/13

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)

Vasculitis MeSH Descriptor Data 2025