Descriptor English: | Decontamination |
Descriptor Spanish: | Descontaminación |
Descriptor Portuguese: | Descontaminação |
Descriptor French: | Décontamination |
Tree number(s): |
N06.850.780.325 SP8.946.117.127 |
RDF Unique Identifier: | https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D003666 |
Scope note: | The removal of contaminating material, such as radioactive materials, biological materials, or CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS, from a person or object. |
Allowable Qualifiers: |
EC economics ES ethics HI history IS instrumentation LJ legislation & jurisprudence MT methods SN statistics & numerical data ST standards |
DeCS ID: | 27980 |
Unique ID: | D003666 |
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): | Click here to access the VHL documents |
Date Established: | 1966/01/01 |
Date of Entry: | 1999/01/01 |
Revision Date: | 2008/07/08 |
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PUBLIC HEALTH
Disasters [SP8]Disasters
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Decontamination
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Concept UI |
M0005737 |
Scope note | The removal of contaminating material, such as radioactive materials, biological materials, or CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS, from a person or object. |
Preferred term | Decontamination |
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