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Descriptor English: Saints
Descriptor Spanish: Santos
Descriptor santos
Scope note: Personas reconocidas oficialmente o admitidas como preeminentes para la consagración, santificación y piedad, especialmente a través de la canonización por una rama de una iglesia cristiana. (Traducción libre del original: Webster, 3d ed)
Descriptor Portuguese: Santos
Descriptor French: Saints
Entry term(s): Saint
Tree number(s): K01.844.188.715
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D018597
Scope note: Persons officially recognized or acknowledged as pre-eminent for consecration, holiness, and piety, especially through canonization by a branch of the Christian church. (From Webster, 3d ed)
Annotation: IM; coord with RELIGION AND MEDICINE (IM) if pertinent + specific med aspect (IM); TN H: form of Saint names as subject name
Allowable Qualifiers: HI history
Previous Indexing: Religion and Medicine (1966-1994)
Public MeSH Note: 95
History Note: 95
DeCS ID: 32038
Unique ID: D018597
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Date Established: 1995/01/01
Date of Entry: 1994/04/19
Saints - Preferred
Concept UI M0027877
Scope note Persons officially recognized or acknowledged as pre-eminent for consecration, holiness, and piety, especially through canonization by a branch of the Christian church. (From Webster, 3d ed)
Preferred term Saints
Entry term(s) Saint



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