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Descriptor English: Incubators
Descriptor Spanish: Incubadoras
Descriptor incubadoras
Scope note: Recintos aislados en los que la temperatura, humedad, y otras condiciones ambientales pueden regularse a niveles óptimos para el crecimiento, incubación, reproducción, o reacciones metabólicas.
Descriptor Portuguese: Incubadoras
Descriptor French: Incubateurs
Entry term(s): Incubator
Tree number(s): E07.461
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D007185
Scope note: Insulated enclosures in which temperature, humidity, and other environmental conditions can be regulated at levels optimal for growth, hatching, reproduction, or metabolic reactions.
Annotation: for eggs, microbial cultures, cell cultures, etc.; INCUBATORS, INFANT is also available
Allowable Qualifiers: AE adverse effects
CL classification
EC economics
ES ethics
HI history
MI microbiology
PS parasitology
SD supply & distribution
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
TD trends
VE veterinary
VI virology
Public MeSH Note: 73
History Note: 73
Related: Environment, Controlled MeSH
Life Support Systems MeSH
DeCS ID: 7362
Unique ID: D007185
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1973/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 1997/06/20
Incubators - Preferred
Concept UI M0011201
Scope note Insulated enclosures in which temperature, humidity, and other environmental conditions can be regulated at levels optimal for growth, hatching, reproduction, or metabolic reactions.
Preferred term Incubators
Entry term(s) Incubator



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