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Descriptor English: Riboflavin Deficiency
Descriptor Spanish: Deficiencia de Riboflavina
Descriptor deficiencia de riboflavina
Scope note: Déficit de riboflavina en la dieta. Produce un síndrome caracterizado fundamentalmente por queilitis, estomatitis angular, glositis asociada a lengua de color rojo púrpura o magenta que puede presentar fisuras, vascularización corneal, disfunción de las glándulas sebáceas y anemia. (Traducción libre del original: Dorland, 28a ed).
Descriptor Portuguese: Deficiência de Riboflavina
Descriptor French: Carence en riboflavine
Entry term(s): Deficiencies, Riboflavin
Deficiency, Riboflavin
Riboflavin Deficiencies
Tree number(s): C18.654.521.500.133.699.713
SP6.990.625.344.378.400.332.715
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D012257
Scope note: A dietary deficiency of riboflavin causing a syndrome chiefly marked by cheilitis, angular stomatitis, glossitis associated with a purplish red or magenta-colored tongue that may show fissures, corneal vascularization, dyssebacia, and anemia. (Dorland, 27th ed)
Annotation: a vitamin B defic
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
Entry Version: RIBOFLAVIN DEFIC
DeCS ID: 12666
Unique ID: D012257
NLM Classification: WD 124
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Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2003/07/09
Riboflavin Deficiency - Preferred
Concept UI M0019065
Scope note A dietary deficiency of riboflavin causing a syndrome chiefly marked by cheilitis, angular stomatitis, glossitis associated with a purplish red or magenta-colored tongue that may show fissures, corneal vascularization, dyssebacia, and anemia. (Dorland, 27th ed)
Preferred term Riboflavin Deficiency
Entry term(s) Deficiencies, Riboflavin
Deficiency, Riboflavin
Riboflavin Deficiencies



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