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MeSH Heading: Spondylosis
Tree Number(s): C05.116.900.938
Unique ID: D055009
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D055009
Annotation: coordinate with specific vertebra; do not confuse with SPONDYLOLYSIS or SPONDYLITIS
Scope Note: A degenerative spinal disease that can involve any part of the VERTEBRA, the INTERVERTEBRAL DISK, and the surrounding soft tissue.
Entry Term(s): Cervical Spondylosis; Lumbarsacral Spondylosis; Spondylosis Deformans; Spondylosis, Cervical; Thoracic Spondylosis
Previous Indexing: Spinal Diseases (1963-1965); Spinal Osteophytosis (1965-2008)
See Also: Spondylolysis
Public MeSH Note: 2009; see SPINAL OSTEOPHYTOSIS 1988-2008; for SPONDYLOSIS DEFORMANS see SPINAL OSTEOPHYTOSIS 1965-2008
History Note: 2009; use SPINAL OSTEOPHYTOSIS 1988-2008; for SPONDYLOSIS DEFORMANS use SPINAL OSTEOPHYTOSIS 1965-2008
Date Established: 2009/01/01
Date of Entry: 2008/07/08
Revision Date: 2012/07/03

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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