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Descriptor English: Adrenal Insufficiency
Descriptor Spanish: Insuficiencia Suprarrenal
Descriptor insuficiencia suprarrenal
Entry term(s) hipofunción de las glándulas suprarrenales
Scope note: Afección caracterizada por una disminución de la producción de CORTICOSTEROIDES en las glándulas suprarrenales, por debajo de los requerimientos del organismo. La insuficiencia suprarrenal puede deberse a defectos de las GLÁNDULAS SUPRARRENALES, de la HIPÓFISIS, o del HIPOTÁLAMO.
Descriptor Portuguese: Insuficiência Adrenal
Descriptor French: Insuffisance surrénale
Entry term(s): Adrenal Gland Hypofunction
Adrenal Insufficiencies
Hypoadrenalism
Hypofunction, Adrenal Gland
Tree number(s): C19.053.500
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000309
Scope note: Conditions in which the production of adrenal CORTICOSTEROIDS falls below the requirement of the body. Adrenal insufficiency can be caused by defects in the ADRENAL GLANDS, the PITUITARY GLAND, or the HYPOTHALAMUS.
Annotation: do not confuse with ADRENAL GLAND HYPERFUNCTION
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced
CL classification
CN congenital
CO complications
DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy
DI diagnosis
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EH ethnology
EM embryology
EN enzymology
EP epidemiology
ET etiology
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
MO mortality
NU nursing
PA pathology
PC prevention & control
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
RT radiotherapy
SU surgery
TH therapy
UR urine
VE veterinary
VI virology
Public MeSH Note: 2005; see ADRENAL GLAND HYPOFUNCTION 1968-2004
History Note: 2005 (1968)
Related: Adrenal Cortex Hormones MeSH
DeCS ID: 312
Unique ID: D000309
NLM Classification: WK 765
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Date Established: 1968/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2004/07/07
Adrenal Insufficiency - Preferred
Concept UI M0000484
Scope note Conditions in which the production of adrenal CORTICOSTEROIDS falls below the requirement of the body. Adrenal insufficiency can be caused by defects in the ADRENAL GLANDS, the PITUITARY GLAND, or the HYPOTHALAMUS.
Preferred term Adrenal Insufficiency
Entry term(s) Adrenal Gland Hypofunction
Adrenal Insufficiencies
Hypoadrenalism
Hypofunction, Adrenal Gland



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