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Descriptor English: Hindlimb Suspension
Descriptor Spanish: Suspensión Trasera
Descriptor suspensión trasera
Entry term(s) descarga esquelética
descarga trasera
elevación trasera
inmovilización trasera
suspensión por la cola
Scope note: Técnica para limitar el uso, actividad, o movimiento mediante la inmovilización o restricción de un animal al suspenderlo por los miembros inferiores o la cola. Se emplea esta inmovilización para simular algunos efectos de la reducción de la gravedad y estudiar la fisiología de la ingravidez.
Descriptor Portuguese: Elevação dos Membros Posteriores
Descriptor French: Suspension des membres postérieurs
Entry term(s): Elevation, Hindlimb
Hindlimb Elevation
Hindlimb Immobilization
Hindlimb Unloading
Immobilization, Hindlimb
Skeletal Unloading
Skeletal Unloadings
Suspension, Hindlimb
Suspension, Tail
Tail Suspension
Unloading, Hindlimb
Unloading, Skeletal
Unloadings, Hindlimb
Unloadings, Skeletal
Tree number(s): E05.472.760.370
E05.977.400
N06.230.150.440.950.400
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D019417
Scope note: Technique for limiting use, activity, or movement by immobilizing or restraining animal by suspending from hindlimbs or tails. This immobilization is used to simulate some effects of reduced gravity and study weightlessness physiology.
Allowable Qualifiers: AE adverse effects
ES ethics
IS instrumentation
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
MT methods
PH physiology
PX psychology
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
VE veterinary
Previous Indexing: Immobilization (1966-1996)
Public MeSH Note: 97
History Note: 97
DeCS ID: 33122
Unique ID: D019417
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Date Established: 1997/01/01
Date of Entry: 1996/06/10
Revision Date: 2018/06/29
Hindlimb Suspension - Preferred
Concept UI M0028892
Scope note Technique for limiting use, activity, or movement by immobilizing or restraining animal by suspending from hindlimbs or tails. This immobilization is used to simulate some effects of reduced gravity and study weightlessness physiology.
Preferred term Hindlimb Suspension
Entry term(s) Elevation, Hindlimb
Hindlimb Elevation
Hindlimb Immobilization
Hindlimb Unloading
Immobilization, Hindlimb
Suspension, Hindlimb
Unloading, Hindlimb
Unloadings, Hindlimb
Tail Suspension - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M0028891
Preferred term Tail Suspension
Entry term(s) Suspension, Tail
Skeletal Unloading - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M0361013
Scope note This refers to skeletal muscle usually related to the hindlimb.
Preferred term Skeletal Unloading
Entry term(s) Skeletal Unloadings
Unloading, Skeletal
Unloadings, Skeletal



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