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Descriptor English: Mucopolysaccharidoses
Descriptor Spanish: Mucopolisacaridosis
Descriptor mucopolisacaridosis
Scope note: Grupo de enfermedades de almacenamiento lisosómico producida, cada una de ellas, por un déficit heredado de una enzima que participa en la degradación de los glicosaminoglicanos (mucopolisacáridos). Las enfermedades son progresivas y a menudo muestran un amplio espectro de gravedad clínica dependiendo del déficit enzimático.
Descriptor Portuguese: Mucopolissacaridoses
Descriptor French: Mucopolysaccharidoses
Entry term(s): Mucopolysaccharidosis
Tree number(s): C16.320.565.202.715
C16.320.565.595.600
C17.300.550.575
C18.452.648.202.715
C18.452.648.595.600
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D009083
Scope note: Group of lysosomal storage diseases each caused by an inherited deficiency of an enzyme involved in the degradation of glycosaminoglycans (mucopolysaccharides). The diseases are progressive and often display a wide spectrum of clinical severity within one enzyme deficiency.
Annotation: lysosomal storage dis; types I through VII except V are available as main headings: V = MUCOPOLYSACCHARIDOSIS V see MUCOPOLYSACCHARIDOSIS I; do not use /congen & do not coord with INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced
CL classification
CO complications
DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy
DI diagnosis
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EH ethnology
EM embryology
EN enzymology
EP epidemiology
ET etiology
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
MO mortality
NU nursing
PA pathology
PC prevention & control
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
RT radiotherapy
SU surgery
TH therapy
UR urine
VE veterinary
VI virology
Public MeSH Note: 92; was MUCOPOLYSACCHARIDOSIS 1974-91
Online Note: use MUCOPOLYSACCHARIDOSES to search MUCOPOLYSACCHARIDOSIS 1974-91
History Note: 92; was MUCOPOLYSACCHARIDOSIS 1974-91
DeCS ID: 30388
Unique ID: D009083
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1974/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2006/07/05
Mucopolysaccharidoses - Preferred
Concept UI M0014167
Scope note Group of lysosomal storage diseases each caused by an inherited deficiency of an enzyme involved in the degradation of glycosaminoglycans (mucopolysaccharides). The diseases are progressive and often display a wide spectrum of clinical severity within one enzyme deficiency.
Preferred term Mucopolysaccharidoses
Entry term(s) Mucopolysaccharidosis



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