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MeSH Heading: Wounds and Injuries
Tree Number(s): C26
Unique ID: D014947
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014947
Annotation: general or unspecified; prefer / inj with organs or specific organ / injury terms
Scope Note: Damage inflicted on the body as the direct or indirect result of an external force, with or without disruption of structural continuity.
Entry Version: WOUNDS INJURIES
Entry Term(s): Injuries; Injuries and Wounds; Injuries, Wounds; Physical Trauma; Research-Related Injuries; Trauma; Wounds; Wounds and Injury; Wounds, Injury
See Also: First Aid; Transportation of Patients
Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2023/05/31

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)

Concept UI: M0023019
Scope Note: Damage inflicted on the body as the direct or indirect result of an external force, with or without disruption of structural continuity.
Terms: Wounds and Injuries Preferred Term
Term UI T043657
Date01/01/1999
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1966); Injuries and Wounds
Term UI T043653
Date03/29/1979
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1979); Injuries, Wounds
Term UI T043654
Date03/29/1979
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1999); Wounds and Injury
Term UI T043655
Date03/29/1979
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1979); Wounds, Injury
Term UI T043656
Date03/29/1979
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (1979)

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