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Descriptor English: Milk Sickness
Descriptor Spanish: Enfermedad de la Leche
Descriptor enfermedad de la leche
Scope note: Enfermedad aguda y frecuentemente mortal causada por la ingestión de leche, productos lácteos o carne de reses u ovejas que padecen una enfermedad conocida como trembles. Se caracteriza por debilidad, anorexia, vómitos, estreñimiento y, en ocasiones, temblores musculares. (Dorland, 28a ed)
Descriptor Portuguese: Doença do Leite
Descriptor French: Maladie du lait
Entry term(s): Sickness, Milk
Tree number(s): C25.723.756.600
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D018602
Scope note: An acute, often fatal disease caused by the ingestion of milk, milk products, or the flesh of cattle or sheep which have a disease known as trembles. It is marked by weakness, anorexia, vomiting, constipation, and sometimes muscular tremors. It is caused by poisoning by white snakeroot (Eupatorium rugosum) and the rayless goldenrod (Haplopappus heterophyllus). (From Dorland, 27th ed)
Annotation: a form of plant pois: see MeSH definition
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
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
Previous Indexing: Plant Poisoning (1966-1994)
Public MeSH Note: 95; was see PLANT POISONING 1979-94; was see under PLANT POISONING 1968-78; was heading 1963-67
Online Note: use PLANT POISONING to search MILK SICKNESS 1966-94
History Note: 95; was see PLANT POISONING 1979-94; was see under PLANT POISONING 1968-78; was heading 1963-67
DeCS ID: 32144
Unique ID: D018602
NLM Classification: WD 530
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1995/01/01
Date of Entry: 1994/04/19
Revision Date: 2010/06/25
Milk Sickness - Preferred
Concept UI M0027883
Scope note An acute, often fatal disease caused by the ingestion of milk, milk products, or the flesh of cattle or sheep which have a disease known as trembles. It is marked by weakness, anorexia, vomiting, constipation, and sometimes muscular tremors. It is caused by poisoning by white snakeroot (Eupatorium rugosum) and the rayless goldenrod (Haplopappus heterophyllus). (From Dorland, 27th ed)
Preferred term Milk Sickness
Entry term(s) Sickness, Milk



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