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Descriptor English: Mercury Poisoning
Descriptor Spanish: Intoxicación por Mercurio
Descriptor intoxicación por mercurio
Entry term(s) envenenamiento por mercurio
Scope note: Intoxicación producida por la ingestión, aguda o crónica, inyección, inhalación o absorción cutánea de MERCURIO o COMPUESTOS DE MERCURIO.
Descriptor Portuguese: Intoxicação por Mercúrio
Descriptor French: Intoxication au mercure
Entry term(s): Mercury Poisonings
Poisoning, Mercury
Poisonings, Mercury
Tree number(s): C25.723.522.875
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D008630
Scope note: Poisoning that results from chronic or acute ingestion, injection, inhalation, or skin absorption of MERCURY or MERCURY COMPOUNDS.
Annotation: coordinate with specific mercury compound /pois if pertinent; occupational mercury poisoning: coordinate with OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES but not also OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
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
Entry Version: MERCURY POIS
DeCS ID: 8807
Unique ID: D008630
NLM Classification: QV 293
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2017/06/20
Mercury Poisoning - Preferred
Concept UI M0013450
Scope note Poisoning that results from chronic or acute ingestion, injection, inhalation, or skin absorption of MERCURY or MERCURY COMPOUNDS.
Preferred term Mercury Poisoning
Entry term(s) Mercury Poisonings
Poisoning, Mercury
Poisonings, Mercury



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