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Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases > Metabolic Diseases

Preferred term

Metabolic Diseases  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Entry terms

  • Diseases, Metabolic
  • Thesaurismoses
  • Thesaurismosis

Note

  • general or unspecified; prefer specifics; differentiate from DEFICIENCY DISEASES

Scope note

  • Generic term for diseases caused by an abnormal metabolic process. It can be congenital due to inherited enzyme abnormality (METABOLISM, INBORN ERRORS) or acquired due to disease of an endocrine organ or failure of a metabolically important organ such as the liver. (Stedman, 26th ed)

In other languages

  • Finnish

  • aineenvaihduntahäiriöt
  • aineenvaihduntasairaus
  • aineenvaihduntataudit
  • aineenvaihduntatauti
  • metabolinen häiriö
  • metabolinen sairaus
  • metabolinen tauti
  • metaboliset häiriöt
  • metaboliset sairaudet
  • metaboliset taudit
  • morbositas metabolica non specificata
  • määrittämätön aineenvaihduntasairaus
  • ospecificerad ämnesomsättningssjukdom
  • perturbationes metabolicae
  • ämnesomsättningssjukdomar
  • Swedish

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D008659

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