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Descriptor English: Primary Action
Descriptor Spanish: Acción Primaria
Descriptor acción primaria
Entry term(s) efecto primario
Scope note: Acción dinámica del remedio homeopático que provoca un movimiento en el organismo que se manifiesta a través de la aparición de síntomas (dolencia artificial).
Descriptor Portuguese: Ação Primária
Descriptor French: Action primaire
Entry term(s): Primary Effect
Tree number(s): HP1.007.281.884
Scope note: The dynamic capacity that an agent of any nature (physical, chemical, biological, psychosocial or relational) has to disturb the vital force, altering the organism's state of health, resulting in illness. The hostile morbid agent may be natural (risk or causal agent, noxious agent or noxa) causing a natural disease, or it may be an administered medicinal substance, causing an artificial disease.
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
DE drug effects
HI history
MT methods
ST standards
TD trends
VE veterinary
DeCS ID: 26466
Unique ID: DDCS026466
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Primary Action - Preferred
Concept UI FD00059109
Scope note The dynamic capacity that an agent of any nature (physical, chemical, biological, psychosocial or relational) has to disturb the vital force, altering the organism's state of health, resulting in illness. The hostile morbid agent may be natural (risk or causal agent, noxious agent or noxa) causing a natural disease, or it may be an administered medicinal substance, causing an artificial disease.
Preferred term Primary Action
Entry term(s) Primary Effect



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