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Qualifier English: deficiency
Qualifier Spanish: deficiencia
Descriptor deficiencia
Scope note: Usado con sustancias endógenas y exógenas que están ausentes o en cantidad reducida en relación con las necesidades normales de un organismo o un sistema biológico.
Qualifier Portuguese: deficiência
Qualifier French: déficit
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/Q000172
Scope note: Used with endogenous and exogenous substances which are absent or in diminished amount relative to the normal requirement of an organism or a biologic system.
Annotation: subhead only; for deficient or inadequate intake or biosynthesis; also for deficient secretion of endogenous substances; see MeSH scope note in Introduction; indexing policy: Manual 19.8.21; /DF: /defic or /DF
Allowable Qualifiers: No qualifiers
Online Note: search policy: Online Manual; use: main heading/DF or DF (SH) or SUBS APPLY DF
History Note: 75; used with Category D 1975-89; D8, D12-13 & D24 1990 forward
Entry Version: DEFIC
Abbreviation: DF
DeCS ID: 22015
Unique ID: Q000172
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Date Established: 1975/01/01
Date of Entry: 1974/10/23
Revision Date: 2003/07/22
deficiency - Preferred
Concept UI M0030357
Scope note Used with endogenous and exogenous substances which are absent or in diminished amount relative to the normal requirement of an organism or a biologic system.
Preferred term deficiency



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