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Descriptor English: King's Evil
Descriptor Spanish: Mal del Rey
Descriptor mal del rey
Scope note: Designación histórica de la escrófula (TUBERCULOSIS DE GANGLIOS LINFÁTICOS). Se denomina así a la enfermedad por la creencia de que podía sanar gracias al toque de un rey. Este término se utiliza sólo en artículos históricos, y se debe diferenciar de la escrófula como tuberculosis ganglionar en la medicina clínica moderna. (Webster, 3d ed)
Descriptor Portuguese: Doença de Rei
Descriptor French: Maladie des écrouelles
Entry term(s): Evil, King's
Evil, Kings
Evils, Kings
Kings Evil
Kings Evils
Tree number(s): C01.150.252.410.040.552.846.617.475.500
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D018601
Scope note: The historic designation for scrofula (TUBERCULOSIS, LYMPH NODE). The disease is so called from the belief that it could be healed by the touch of a king. This term is used only for historical articles using the name "king's evil", and is to be differentiated from scrofula as lymph node tuberculosis in modern clinical medicine. (From Webster, 3d ed)
Annotation: = scrofula in hist articles only: differentiate from SCROFULA see TUBERCULOSIS, LYMPH NODE which is restricted to scrofula in modern clin med
Allowable Qualifiers: HI history
Previous Indexing: Tuberculosis, Lymph Node (1966-1994)
Public MeSH Note: 95
History Note: 95
DeCS ID: 32167
Unique ID: D018601
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Date Established: 1995/01/01
Date of Entry: 1994/04/19
Revision Date: 2015/06/22
King's Evil - Preferred
Concept UI M0027882
Scope note The historic designation for scrofula (TUBERCULOSIS, LYMPH NODE). The disease is so called from the belief that it could be healed by the touch of a king. This term is used only for historical articles using the name "king's evil", and is to be differentiated from scrofula as lymph node tuberculosis in modern clinical medicine. (From Webster, 3d ed)
Preferred term King's Evil
Entry term(s) Evil, King's
Evil, Kings
Evils, Kings
Kings Evil
Kings Evils



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