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Descriptor English: Osteoarthritis
Descriptor Spanish: Osteoartritis
Descriptor osteoartritis
Entry term(s) artritis degenerativa
artrosis
osteoartrosis
osteoartrosis deformante
Scope note: Enfermedad articular degenerativa y progresiva, la forma más frecuente de artritis, especialmente en los ancianos. Se cree que la enfermedad no es resultado del proceso de envejecimiento, sino de los cambios bioquímicos y del estrés biomecánico que afectan al cartílago articular. En la literatura foránea se conoce a menudo como osteoartrosis deformante.
Descriptor Portuguese: Osteoartrite
Descriptor French: Arthrose
Entry term(s): Arthritides, Degenerative
Arthritis, Degenerative
Arthroses
Arthrosis
Degenerative Arthritides
Degenerative Arthritis
Osteoarthritides
Osteoarthroses
Osteoarthrosis
Osteoarthrosis Deformans
Tree number(s): C05.550.114.606
C05.799.613
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D010003
Scope note: A progressive, degenerative joint disease, the most common form of arthritis, especially in older persons. The disease is thought to result not from the aging process but from biochemical changes and biomechanical stresses affecting articular cartilage. In the foreign literature it is often called osteoarthrosis deformans.
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: 2013; for Arthrosis see Joint Diseases 2017-2019
History Note: 2013; for Arthrosis use Joint Diseases 2017-2019
DeCS ID: 10179
Unique ID: D010003
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Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2019/05/17
Osteoarthritis - Preferred
Concept UI M0015509
Scope note A progressive, degenerative joint disease, the most common form of arthritis, especially in older persons. The disease is thought to result not from the aging process but from biochemical changes and biomechanical stresses affecting articular cartilage. In the foreign literature it is often called osteoarthrosis deformans.
Preferred term Osteoarthritis
Entry term(s) Arthritides, Degenerative
Arthritis, Degenerative
Degenerative Arthritides
Degenerative Arthritis
Osteoarthritides
Osteoarthroses
Osteoarthrosis
Osteoarthrosis Deformans - Narrower
Concept UI M0015510
Preferred term Osteoarthrosis Deformans
Arthrosis - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M000648787
Preferred term Arthrosis
Entry term(s) Arthroses



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