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Descriptor English: Atmospheric Pressure
Descriptor Spanish: Presión Atmosférica
Descriptor presión atmosférica
Entry term(s) isobara
presión barométrica
Scope note: Presión en cualquier punto de una atmósfera ejercida exclusivamente por el peso de los gases atmosféricos sobre ese punto.
Descriptor Portuguese: Pressão Atmosférica
Descriptor French: Pression atmosphérique
Entry term(s): Atmospheric Pressures
Contour Line of Pressure
Isobar
Pressure, Atmospheric
Pressures, Atmospheric
Tree number(s): G16.500.750.274
N06.230.300.100.185
SP4.606.178.671
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001274
Scope note: The pressure at any point in an atmosphere due solely to the weight of the atmospheric gases above the point concerned.
Allowable Qualifiers: No qualifiers
Related: Altitude MeSH
Barotrauma MeSH
Decompression Sickness MeSH
Hyperbaric Oxygenation MeSH
Hypoxia MeSH
DeCS ID: 1281
Unique ID: D001274
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Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2016/07/18
Atmospheric Pressure - Preferred
Concept UI M0001917
Scope note The pressure at any point in an atmosphere due solely to the weight of the atmospheric gases above the point concerned.
Preferred term Atmospheric Pressure
Entry term(s) Atmospheric Pressures
Pressure, Atmospheric
Pressures, Atmospheric
Isobar - Narrower
Concept UI FD00060587
Scope note A line represented on a map or chart, connecting points on the surface that have equal barometric pressure over a given time or period (OFDA, Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance). (Internationally agreed glossary of basic terms related to Disaster Management - IDNDR, 1992: http://cidbimena.desastres.hn/pdf/spa/doc3341/doc3341.htm)
Preferred term Isobar
Entry term(s) Contour Line of Pressure



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