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Descriptor English: Burial
Descriptor Spanish: Entierro
Descriptor enterramiento
Entry term(s) entierro
Scope note: Acto o ceremonia de colocar un cadáver en la tierra, en una cripta o en el mar, o colocación de las cenizas de la CREMACIÓN en una urna.
Descriptor Portuguese: Sepultamento
Descriptor French: Funérailles
Entry term(s): Burials
Tree number(s): I01.076.201.450.550.150
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D002048
Scope note: The act or ceremony of putting a corpse into the ground or a vault, or into the sea; or the inurnment of CREMAINS.
Allowable Qualifiers: EC economics
ES ethics
HI history
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
MT methods
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
Public MeSH Note: 91; was see under MORTUARY PRACTICE 1975-90
Online Note: search MORTUARY PRACTICE 1966-74
History Note: 91(75); was see under MORTUARY PRACTICE 1975-90
DeCS ID: 2080
Unique ID: D002048
NLM Classification: WA 846
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1991/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2008/10/16
Burial - Preferred
Concept UI M0003055
Scope note The act or ceremony of putting a corpse into the ground or a vault, or into the sea; or the inurnment of CREMAINS.
Preferred term Burial
Entry term(s) Burials



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