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Descriptor English: Thinness
Descriptor Spanish: Delgadez
Descriptor delgadez
Entry term(s) magrez
Scope note: Estado de masa muscular insuficiente en el cuerpo que, generalmente, se define por un peso corporal inferior a los estándares físicos y esqueléticos, como el ÍNDICE DE MASA CORPORAL, y que depende de la edad, el sexo y los antecedentes genéticos.
Descriptor Portuguese: Magreza
Descriptor French: Maigreur
Entry term(s): Leanness
Underweight
Tree number(s): C23.888.144.828
E01.370.600.115.450.375.828
G07.100.100.160.120.828
G07.100.175.313.828
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D013851
Scope note: A state of insufficient flesh on the body usually defined as having a body weight less than skeletal and physical standards, such as BODY MASS INDEX, and dependent on age, sex, and genetic background.
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
Related: Emaciation MeSH
DeCS ID: 14231
Unique ID: D013851
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: 2008/07/08
Thinness - Preferred
Concept UI M0021342
Scope note A state of insufficient flesh on the body usually defined as having a body weight less than skeletal and physical standards, such as BODY MASS INDEX, and dependent on age, sex, and genetic background.
Preferred term Thinness
Entry term(s) Leanness
Underweight - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M0468047
Preferred term Underweight



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