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Descriptor English: Artificial Organs
Descriptor Spanish: Órganos Artificiales
Descriptor órganos artificiales
Scope note: Dispositivos creados para reemplazar órganos no funcionales. Pueden ser temporales o permanentes. Al estar destinados siempre a funcionar como los órganos naturales a los que reemplazan, deben diferenciarse de las PRÓTESIS E IMPLANTES y los tipos específicos de prótesis que, aunque reemplazan también partes del cuerpo, son con frecuencia cosméticos (OJO ARTIFICIAL) y funcionales (MIEMBROS ARTIFICIALES).
Descriptor Portuguese: Órgãos Artificiais
Descriptor French: Organes artificiels
Entry term(s): Artificial Organ
Organ, Artificial
Organs, Artificial
Tree number(s): E07.858.082
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001187
Scope note: Devices intended to replace non-functioning organs. They may be temporary or permanent. Since they are intended always to function as the natural organs they are replacing, they should be differentiated from PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS and specific types of prostheses which, though also replacements for body parts, are frequently cosmetic (EYE, ARTIFICIAL) as well as functional (ARTIFICIAL LIMBS).
Annotation: usually to replace function, as HEART, ARTIFICIAL or KIDNEY, ARTIFICIAL: do not confuse with PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS which is usually cosmetic; not for injections, like silicones, to replace substance; coord IM with specific organ (IM) with no qualif but note available precoords
Allowable Qualifiers: AE adverse effects
CL classification
EC economics
ES ethics
HI history
MI microbiology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
SD supply & distribution
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
TD trends
VE veterinary
VI virology
DeCS ID: 1193
Unique ID: D001187
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Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 1997/06/20
Artificial Organs - Preferred
Concept UI M0001772
Scope note Devices intended to replace non-functioning organs. They may be temporary or permanent. Since they are intended always to function as the natural organs they are replacing, they should be differentiated from PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS and specific types of prostheses which, though also replacements for body parts, are frequently cosmetic (EYE, ARTIFICIAL) as well as functional (ARTIFICIAL LIMBS).
Preferred term Artificial Organs
Entry term(s) Artificial Organ
Organ, Artificial
Organs, Artificial



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