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Descriptor English: Spinal Cord Diseases
Descriptor Spanish: Enfermedades de la Médula Espinal
Descriptor enfermedades de la médula espinal
Entry term(s) mielopatía
Scope note: Afecciones caracterizadas por daños o disfunción de la MÉDULA ESPINAL, entre lss que se incluyen trastornos en los que participan las meninges y los espacios perimeníngeos que rodean la médula espinal. Las lesiones traumáticas, enfermedades vasculares, infecciosas y procesos inflamatorios/autoinmunes pueden afectar a la médula espinal.
Descriptor Portuguese: Doenças da Medula Espinal
Descriptor French: Maladies de la moelle épinière
Entry term(s): Myelopathies
Myelopathy
Spinal Cord Disease
Spinal Cord Disorder
Spinal Cord Disorders
Tree number(s): C10.228.854
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D013118
Scope note: Pathologic conditions which feature SPINAL CORD damage or dysfunction, including disorders involving the meninges and perimeningeal spaces surrounding the spinal cord. Traumatic injuries, vascular diseases, infections, and inflammatory/autoimmune processes may affect the spinal cord.
Annotation: coord IM with specific vertebrae (NIM) to locate site on spinal cord; inflamm dis of spinal cord= MYELITIS
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
Public MeSH Note: 1966
History Note: 1966
Entry Version: SPINAL CORD DIS
DeCS ID: 13501
Unique ID: D013118
NLM Classification: WL 402
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: 1999/12/08
Spinal Cord Diseases - Preferred
Concept UI M0020311
Scope note Pathologic conditions which feature SPINAL CORD damage or dysfunction, including disorders involving the meninges and perimeningeal spaces surrounding the spinal cord. Traumatic injuries, vascular diseases, infections, and inflammatory/autoimmune processes may affect the spinal cord.
Preferred term Spinal Cord Diseases
Entry term(s) Myelopathies
Myelopathy
Spinal Cord Disease
Spinal Cord Disorder
Spinal Cord Disorders



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