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MeSH Heading: Lung Injury
Tree Number(s): C08.381.520; C26.891.554
Unique ID: D055370
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D055370
Annotation: ACUTE LUNG INJURY and VENTILATOR-INDUCED LUNG INJURY are also available
Scope Note: Damage to any compartment of the lung caused by physical, chemical, or biological agents which characteristically elicit inflammatory reaction. These inflammatory reactions can either be acute and dominated by NEUTROPHILS, or chronic and dominated by LYMPHOCYTES and MACROPHAGES.
Entry Term(s): Chronic Lung Injury; Lung Injuries; Pulmonary Injury
NLM Classification #: WF 653
Previous Indexing: Lung Diseases (1969-2008)
Public MeSH Note: 2009
History Note: 2009
Date Established: 2009/01/01
Date of Entry: 2008/07/08
Revision Date: 2010/06/25

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)

Lung Injury MeSH Descriptor Data 2022