Descriptor English: | Balneology | ||||||
Descriptor Spanish: |
Balneología
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Descriptor Portuguese: | Balneologia | ||||||
Descriptor French: | Balnéologie | ||||||
Entry term(s): |
Balneotherapy Crenotherapy Termalism |
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Tree number(s): |
E02.056 HP3.018.091 MT3.465.141 |
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RDF Unique Identifier: | https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D001452 | ||||||
Scope note: | Therapy by various hot or warm baths in natural mineral waters, spas, or "cures". It includes not only bathing in, but also drinking the waters, but it does not include whirlpool baths (HYDROTHERAPY). |
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Annotation: | differentiate from HYDROTHERAPY where emphasis is on plain water (not natural mineral water; see note there); coordinate with MINERAL WATERS as appropriate |
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Allowable Qualifiers: |
CL classification EC economics ED education ES ethics HI history IS instrumentation LJ legislation & jurisprudence MT methods OG organization & administration SN statistics & numerical data ST standards TD trends |
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Entry Version: | BALNEOL |
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Related: |
Health Resorts
MeSH Mineral Waters MeSH | ||||||
DeCS ID: | 1474 | ||||||
Unique ID: | D001452 | ||||||
NLM Classification: | WB 525 | ||||||
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: | 2015/06/30 |
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ANALYTICAL, DIAGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC TECHNIQUES, AND EQUIPMENT
Therapeutics [E02]Therapeutics -
TRADITIONAL, COMPLEMENTARY AND INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE
Complementary Therapeutic Methods [MT3]Complementary Therapeutic Methods
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Balneology
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Balneotherapy
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Termalism
- Narrower
Crenotherapy
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Concept UI |
M0002161 |
Scope note | Therapy by various hot or warm baths in natural mineral waters, spas, or "cures". It includes not only bathing in, but also drinking the waters, but it does not include whirlpool baths (HYDROTHERAPY). |
Preferred term | Balneology |
Concept UI |
M0002162 |
Scope note | A branch of physical and rehabilitation medicine using the natural factors of balneal resorts for therapeutical purposes to modulate the symptoms of numerous diseases, representing a non‑pharmaceutical therapeutic alternative. |
Preferred term | Balneotherapy |
Concept UI |
FD00066548 |
Scope note | A set of activities that involve therapy with medicinal mineral waters applied to a patient during their stay at a spa. |
Preferred term | Termalism |
Concept UI |
FD00066668 |
Scope note | A branch of balneotherapy in which mineral waters are used as a therapy consisting of ingestion of mineral water at the source (spring), in the quantities recommended by the medical rehabilitation physician. (Dumitrescu, M., Iliescu, M. G., Mazilu, L., Micu, S. I., Suceveanu, A. P., Voinea, F., Voinea, C., Stoian, A. P., Suceveanu, A."Benefits of crenotherapy in digestive tract pathology (Review)". Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine 23, no. 2 (2022): 122. https://doi.org/10.3892/etm.2021.11045) |
Preferred term | Crenotherapy |
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