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Preferred term

Amyloidosis  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Note

  • coord IM with organ/dis precoord (IM); /genet: consider also AMYLOIDOSIS, HEREDITARY

Scope note

  • A group of sporadic, familial and/or inherited, degenerative, and infectious disease processes, linked by the common theme of abnormal protein folding and deposition of AMYLOID. As the amyloid deposits enlarge they displace normal tissue structures, causing disruption of function. Various signs and symptoms depend on the location and size of the deposits.

In other languages

  • Finnish

  • amyloidin kertyminen
  • amyloidirappeuma
  • amyloiditauti
  • amyloidos
  • amyloidosis
  • amyloidosis non specificata
  • määrittämätön amyloidoosi
  • ospecificerad amyloidos
  • primaarinen amyloidoosi
  • primär amyloidos
  • Swedish

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D000686

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