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Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms > Pathologic Processes > Disease

Preferred term

Disease  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Note

  • general only as a physiological, pathological, philosophical concept, opposite "health"; Manual 23.5+; / econ permitted but consider also economic aspects of disease as ECONOMICS, MEDICAL; / psychol permitted but consider also psychogenic origin of disease as PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC DISORDERS

Scope note

  • A definite pathologic process with a characteristic set of signs and symptoms. It may affect the whole body or any of its parts, and its etiology, pathology, and prognosis may be known or unknown.

In other languages

  • sairaus

    Finnish

  • causae morborum ignotae sive non specificatae
  • morbus
  • morbus NAS
  • sairaudet
  • tarkemmin määrittämätön sairaus
  • taudit
  • tauti
  • tuntemattoman tai epäspesifisen tekijän aiheuttama ja sijainniltaan määrittämätön sairaustila
  • Sjukdom

    Swedish

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D004194

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