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Descriptor English: Vitamin D Deficiency
Descriptor Spanish: Deficiencia de Vitamina D
Descriptor deficiencia de vitamina D
Entry term(s) hipovitaminosis D
Scope note: Enfermedad nutricional producida por el déficit de VITAMINA D en la dieta, una insuficiente producción de vitamina D en la piel, una inadecuada absorción de vitamina D de la dieta o por una anomalía en la conversión de la vitamina D en sus metabolitos bioactivos. Se manifiesta clínicamente como RAQUITISMO en los niños y como OSTEOMALACIA en los adultos. (Traducción libre del original: Cecil Textbook of Medicine, 19th ed, p1406)
Descriptor Portuguese: Deficiência de Vitamina D
Descriptor French: Carence en vitamine D
Entry term(s): Deficiencies, Vitamin D
Deficiency, Vitamin D
Vitamin D Deficiencies
Tree number(s): C18.654.521.500.133.770
SP6.990.625.344.378.400.664
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014808
Scope note: A nutritional condition produced by a deficiency of VITAMIN D in the diet, insufficient production of vitamin D in the skin, inadequate absorption of vitamin D from the diet, or abnormal conversion of vitamin D to its bioactive metabolites. It is manifested clinically as RICKETS in children and OSTEOMALACIA in adults. (From Cecil Textbook of Medicine, 19th ed, p1406)
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: VITAMIN D DEFIC
Related: Rickets MeSH
DeCS ID: 15210
Unique ID: D014808
NLM Classification: WD 145
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Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2003/07/09
Vitamin D Deficiency - Preferred
Concept UI M0022798
Scope note A nutritional condition produced by a deficiency of VITAMIN D in the diet, insufficient production of vitamin D in the skin, inadequate absorption of vitamin D from the diet, or abnormal conversion of vitamin D to its bioactive metabolites. It is manifested clinically as RICKETS in children and OSTEOMALACIA in adults. (From Cecil Textbook of Medicine, 19th ed, p1406)
Preferred term Vitamin D Deficiency
Entry term(s) Deficiencies, Vitamin D
Deficiency, Vitamin D
Vitamin D Deficiencies



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