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Descriptor English: Phimosis
Descriptor Spanish: Fimosis
Descriptor fimosis
Scope note: Incapacidad para retraer el prepucio sobre el glande del pene debido a lo apretado del prepucio.
Descriptor Portuguese: Fimose
Descriptor French: Phimosis
Entry term(s): Phimoses
Tree number(s): C12.100.500.494.684
C12.200.294.494.684
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D010688
Scope note: A condition in which the FORESKIN cannot be retracted to reveal the GLANS PENIS. It is due to tightness or narrowing of the foreskin opening.
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced
CL classification
CN congenital
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
DeCS ID: 10882
Unique ID: D010688
NLM Classification: WJ 790
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Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2006/07/05
Phimosis - Preferred
Concept UI M0016606
Scope note A condition in which the FORESKIN cannot be retracted to reveal the GLANS PENIS. It is due to tightness or narrowing of the foreskin opening.
Preferred term Phimosis
Entry term(s) Phimoses



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