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Descriptor English: Nutritional Dwarfism
Descriptor Spanish: Enanismo Nutricional
Descriptor enanismo nutricional
Scope note: Estado en el que el niño, como consecuencia de una dieta inapropiada, es anormalmente bajo en relación con su edad y su potencial genético, pero no presenta ningún signo clínico específico de enfermedad aparte del retraso del crecimiento.
Descriptor Portuguese: Nanismo Nutricional
Descriptor French: Nanisme Nutritionnel
Tree number(s): SP6.990.625.344.855
Scope note: State in which a child, as a result of inadequate diet, is abnormally small for their age and their genetic potential, but has no specific clinical signs of disease than growth retardation.
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CL classification
CO complications
DH diet therapy
DI diagnosis
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EN enzymology
EP epidemiology
IM immunology
ME metabolism
PA pathology
PC prevention & control
PP physiopathology
RH rehabilitation
TH therapy
UR urine
DeCS ID: 16601
Unique ID: DDCS016601
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Nutritional Dwarfism - Preferred
Concept UI FD00057828
Scope note State in which a child, as a result of inadequate diet, is abnormally small for their age and their genetic potential, but has no specific clinical signs of disease than growth retardation.
Preferred term Nutritional Dwarfism



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