DeCS

Descriptor English:

Convection

Descriptor Spanish:

Convección

Spanish from Spain

Descriptor	convección
Scope note:	Transmisión de energía o masa a través de un medio que implica el movimiento del propio medio. Movimiento circulatorio que se produce en un fluido que se encuentra a temperatura no uniforme, debido a la variación de su densidad y la acción de la gravedad. (Traducción libre del original: McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 4th ed; Webster, 10th ed).

Descriptor Portuguese:

Convecção

Descriptor French:

Convection

Tree number(s):

G01.906.230

RDF Unique Identifier:

https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D018481

Scope note:

Transmission of energy or mass by a medium involving movement of the medium itself. The circulatory movement that occurs in a fluid at a nonuniform temperature owing to the variation of its density and the action of gravity. (McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 4th ed; Webster, 10th ed)

Allowable Qualifiers:

No qualifiers

DeCS ID:

32298

Unique ID:

D018481

Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL):

Click here to access the VHL documents

Date Established:

1995/01/01

Date of Entry:

1994/06/07