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... > Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases > Metabolic Diseases > Calcium Metabolism Disorders > Calcinosis > Vascular Calcification > Monckeberg Medial Calcific Sclerosis

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Monckeberg Medial Calcific Sclerosis  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Calcific Scleroses, Medial
  • Calcific Sclerosis, Medial
  • Medial Calcific Scleroses
  • Medial Calcific Sclerosis
  • Mönckeberg Medial Calcific Sclerosis
  • Monckeberg Sclerosis
  • Mönckeberg Sclerosis
  • Monckeberg's Medial Calcific Sclerosis
  • Mönckeberg's Medial Calcific Sclerosis
  • Monckeberg's Sclerosis
  • Monckebergs Sclerosis
  • Mönckeberg's Sclerosis
  • Mönckebergs Sclerosis
  • Scleroses, Medial Calcific
  • Sclerosis, Medial Calcific
  • Sclerosis, Monckeberg Medial Calcific
  • Sclerosis, Mönckeberg Medial Calcific
  • Sclerosis, Monckeberg's
  • Sclerosis, Mönckeberg's

Scope note

  • Thickening and loss of elasticity of the walls of muscular ARTERIES due to calcification of the TUNICA MEDIA, the concentric layers of helically arranged SMOOTH MUSCLE CELLS.

History note

  • 2006; use ARTERIOSCLEROSIS 2001-2005

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URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D050380

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