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Chemical Actions and Uses > Pharmacologic Actions > Physiological Effects of Drugs > Micronutrients > Vitamins
Food and Beverages > Food > Nutrients > Micronutrients > Vitamins
... > Physiological Phenomena > Diet, Food, and Nutrition > Food > Nutrients > Micronutrients > Vitamins

Preferred term

Vitamins  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Narrower concepts

Note

  • deficiency = AVITAMINOSIS but prefer specific precoordinated vitamin deficiency terms (avitaminosis A = VITAMIN A DEFICIENCY, etc.); /ther use: coordinate with disease term with either /drug ther or /diet ther depending on whether the vitamin is discussed as a drug or a dietary supplement

Scope note

  • Organic substances that are required in small amounts for maintenance and growth, but which cannot be manufactured by the human body.

In other languages

  • vitamiinit

    Finnish

  • Cernevit
  • Soluvit
  • Vitalipid Adult
  • Vitalipid Infant
  • vitamiini
  • vitaminum
  • Vitaminer

    Swedish

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D014815

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