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Nervous System Diseases > Nervous System Malformations > Neural Tube Defects > Spinal Dysraphism
Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities > Congenital Abnormalities > Nervous System Malformations > Neural Tube Defects > Spinal Dysraphism

Preferred term

Spinal Dysraphism  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Narrower concepts

Entry terms

  • Bifida, Spina
  • Cleft Spine
  • Cleft Spines
  • Dysraphia, Spinal
  • Open Spine
  • Open Spines
  • Schistorrhachis
  • Spina Bifida
  • Spina Bifidas
  • Spinal Dysraphia
  • Spinal Dysraphias
  • Spine, Cleft
  • Spine, Open

Note

  • general or unspecified; prefer specifics

Scope note

  • Congenital defects of closure of one or more vertebral arches, which may be associated with malformations of the spinal cord, nerve roots, congenital fibrous bands, lipomas, and congenital cysts. These malformations range from mild (e.g., SPINA BIFIDA OCCULTA) to severe, including rachischisis where there is complete failure of neural tube and spinal cord fusion, resulting in exposure of the spinal cord at the surface. Spinal dysraphism includes all forms of spina bifida. The open form is called SPINA BIFIDA CYSTICA and the closed form is SPINA BIFIDA OCCULTA. (From Joynt, Clinical Neurology, 1992, Ch55, p34)

History note

  • 1991(1964); for SPINA BIFIDA use SPINA BIFIDA OCCULTA 1978-1990, use SPINAL DYSRAPHISM 1966-1970

In other languages

  • selkärankahalkio

    Finnish

  • määrittämätön selkärankahalkio
  • selkärankakaaren halkio
  • selkäytimen sulkeutumishäiriö
  • selkäytimen sulkeutumishäiriöt
  • spina bifida
  • spina bifida non specificata
  • spinaalinen dysrafismi
  • Spinal dysrafi

    Swedish

  • Spina bifida
  • Spinal dysrafism
  • Status dysraphicus

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D016135

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