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Descriptor English: Photoplethysmography
Descriptor Spanish: Fotopletismografía
Descriptor fotopletismografía
Scope note: Determinación pletismográfica en la que se mide la intensidad de la luz reflejada por la superficie de la piel y los hematíes que están debajo para determinar el volumen de sangre del área en cuestión. Hay dos tipos, por transmisión y por reflectancia.
Descriptor Portuguese: Fotopletismografia
Descriptor French: Photopléthysmographie
Entry term(s): Light Reflection Rheographies
Light Reflection Rheography
Photoplethysmographies
Photoreflexometries
Photoreflexometry
Rheographies, Light Reflection
Rheography, Light Reflection
Tree number(s): E01.370.370.610.600
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D017156
Scope note: Plethysmographic determination in which the intensity of light reflected from the skin surface and the red cells below is measured to determine the blood volume of the respective area. There are two types, transmission and reflectance.
Allowable Qualifiers: AE adverse effects
CL classification
DE drug effects
EC economics
ES ethics
HI history
IS instrumentation
MO mortality
MT methods
NU nursing
PX psychology
RE radiation effects
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
TD trends
VE veterinary
Previous Indexing: Plethysmography (1966-1992)
Public MeSH Note: 93
History Note: 93
Entry Version: PHOTOPLETHYSMOGR
DeCS ID: 30620
Unique ID: D017156
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Date Established: 1993/01/01
Date of Entry: 1992/05/22
Revision Date: 2015/06/23
Photoplethysmography - Preferred
Concept UI M0026056
Scope note Plethysmographic determination in which the intensity of light reflected from the skin surface and the red cells below is measured to determine the blood volume of the respective area. There are two types, transmission and reflectance.
Preferred term Photoplethysmography
Entry term(s) Light Reflection Rheographies
Light Reflection Rheography
Photoplethysmographies
Photoreflexometries
Photoreflexometry
Rheographies, Light Reflection
Rheography, Light Reflection



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