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Descriptor English: Sleep Aids, Pharmaceutical
Descriptor Spanish: Fármacos Inductores del Sueño
Descriptor pastillas para dormir
Entry term(s) fármacos inductores del sueño
somnífero
somníferos
Scope note: Medicamentos utilizados para inducir el SUEÑO, prevenir INSOMNIO, o tratar TRASTORNOS DEL INICIO Y DEL MANTENIMIENTO DEL SUEÑO.
Descriptor Portuguese: Medicamentos Indutores do Sono
Descriptor French: Produits pharmaceutiques favorisant le sommeil
Entry term(s): Pharmaceutical Sleep Aids
Pills, Sleeping
Sleep Inducers
Sleep Promoting Agents
Sleeping Pills
Tree number(s): D27.505.696.277.350.500
D27.505.954.427.210.350.500
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000068776
Scope note: Drugs used to induce SLEEP, prevent SLEEPLESSNESS, or treat SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS.
Allowable Qualifiers: AA analogs & derivatives
AD administration & dosage
AE adverse effects
AN analysis
BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CH chemistry
CL classification
CS chemical synthesis
EC economics
HI history
IM immunology
IP isolation & purification
ME metabolism
PD pharmacology
PK pharmacokinetics
PO poisoning
RE radiation effects
SD supply & distribution
ST standards
TO toxicity
TU therapeutic use
UR urine
Previous Indexing: Sleep Wake Disorders (1999-2015)
Public MeSH Note: 2016
History Note: 2016
DeCS ID: 56017
Unique ID: D000068776
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 2016/01/01
Date of Entry: 2015/07/02
Revision Date: 2017/12/08
Sleep Aids, Pharmaceutical - Preferred
Concept UI M000603757
Scope note Drugs used to induce SLEEP, prevent SLEEPLESSNESS, or treat SLEEP INITIATION AND MAINTENANCE DISORDERS.
Preferred term Sleep Aids, Pharmaceutical
Entry term(s) Pharmaceutical Sleep Aids
Sleep Inducers
Sleep Promoting Agents
Sleeping Pills - Narrower
Concept UI M000639644
Preferred term Sleeping Pills
Entry term(s) Pills, Sleeping



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