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Descriptor English: Plant Poisoning
Descriptor Spanish: Intoxicación por Plantas
Descriptor intoxicación por plantas
Entry term(s) envenenamiento por plantas
Scope note: Envenenamiento por la ingestión de plantas o de sus hojas, bayas, raíces o tallos. Las manifestaciones, tanto en humanos como en animales, son de gravedad variable, desde leves a peligrosas para la vida. En los animales, especialmente en los domésticos, usualmente se producen por la ingesta de forraje mohoso o fermentado.
Descriptor Portuguese: Intoxicação por Plantas
Descriptor French: Intoxication par les plantes
Entry term(s): Plant Poisonings
Poisoning, Plant
Poisonings, Plant
Tree number(s): C25.723.756
SP4.909.300.403
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D010939
Scope note: Poisoning by the ingestion of plants or its leaves, berries, roots or stalks. The manifestations in both humans and animals vary in severity from mild to life threatening. In animals, especially domestic animals, it is usually the result of ingesting moldy or fermented forage.
Annotation: human & animal; coord IM with specific plant (IM) + specific dis /etiol (IM); do not coord with food plants in Cat J: index under specific Cat J2 food plant /pois (IM), as FRUIT /pois or GARLIC /pois but not also here; Jamaican vomiting sickness: index PLANT POISONING + HYPOGLYCINS /pois
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: PLANT POIS
DeCS ID: 11370
Unique ID: D010939
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: 2010/06/25
Plant Poisoning - Preferred
Concept UI M0016961
Scope note Poisoning by the ingestion of plants or its leaves, berries, roots or stalks. The manifestations in both humans and animals vary in severity from mild to life threatening. In animals, especially domestic animals, it is usually the result of ingesting moldy or fermented forage.
Preferred term Plant Poisoning
Entry term(s) Plant Poisonings
Poisoning, Plant
Poisonings, Plant



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