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Descriptor English: Decapitation
Descriptor Spanish: Decapitación
Descriptor decapitación
Entry term(s) degollación
Scope note: Separación, traumática o experimental, de la cabeza y el cuerpo de un animal o persona.Separación, traumática o experimental, de la cabeza del cuerpo en un animal o persona.
Descriptor Portuguese: Decapitação
Descriptor French: Décollation
Entry term(s): Decapitations
Tree number(s): C26.986.224
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D049248
Scope note: Traumatic or experimentally induced separation of the head from the body in an animal or human.
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
Public MeSH Note: 2005
History Note: 2005
DeCS ID: 38649
Unique ID: D049248
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Date Established: 2005/01/01
Date of Entry: 2004/07/07
Revision Date: 2010/06/25
Decapitation - Preferred
Concept UI M0463935
Scope note Traumatic or experimentally induced separation of the head from the body in an animal or human.
Preferred term Decapitation
Entry term(s) Decapitations



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