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Descriptor English: Paleopathology
Descriptor Spanish: Paleopatología
Descriptor paleopatología
Scope note: Estudio de las enfermedades en tiempos prehistóricos a través de los huesos, las momias y los artefactos arqueológicos.
Descriptor Portuguese: Paleopatologia
Descriptor French: Paléopathologie
Tree number(s): I01.076.368.584.709
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D010164
Scope note: The study of disease in prehistoric times as revealed in bones, mummies, and archaeologic artifacts.
Annotation: specialty; used also as NIM coordinate; check tags HISTORICAL ARTICLE, and ANCIENT HISTORY or MEDIEVAL HISTORY; for prehistory, ANCIENT HISTORY tag is all right; paleopathology is for pre-Columbian, nothing later; consider also MUMMIES /pathol and do not coordinate with PALEOPATHOLOGY
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
EC economics
ED education
ES ethics
HI history
IS instrumentation
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
MT methods
OG organization & administration
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
TD trends
Entry Version: PALEOPATHOL
DeCS ID: 10351
Unique ID: D010164
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Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2009/07/13
Paleopathology - Preferred
Concept UI M0015771
Scope note The study of disease in prehistoric times as revealed in bones, mummies, and archaeologic artifacts.
Preferred term Paleopathology



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