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Preferred term

Respiratory System  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Entry terms

  • Respiratory Tract
  • Respiratory Tracts
  • Tract, Respiratory
  • Tracts, Respiratory

Note

  • general or unspecified; prefer specifics; /abnorm: RESPIRATORY SYSTEM ABNORMALITIES is available but consider also specific part of respiratory system with /abnorm or specific abnormality

Scope note

  • The tubular and cavernous organs and structures, by means of which pulmonary ventilation and gas exchange between ambient air and the blood are brought about.

In other languages

  • Finnish

  • apparatus respiratorius
  • hengityselimistö
  • hengityselin
  • hengitysjärjestelmä
  • respiratorinen järjestelmä
  • systema respiratorium
  • Swedish

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D012137

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