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Descriptor English: Nature
Descriptor Spanish: Naturaleza
Descriptor naturaleza
Scope note: Sistema de todos los fenómenos que ocurren en el espacio y el tiempo; la totalidad de la realidad física. Se trata de un concepto tanto filosófico como científico presente en todas la épocas de la historia. (Traducción libre del original: Webster 2d; Dr. James H. Cassedy, NLM History of Medicine Division)
Descriptor Portuguese: Natureza
Descriptor French: Nature
Tree number(s): K01.637
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D019368
Scope note: The system of all phenomena in space and time; the totality of physical reality. It is both a scientific and philosophic concept appearing in all historic eras. (Webster 2d; Dr. James H. Cassedy, NLM History of Medicine Division)
Annotation: restrict to Nature as an abstract or philosophical concept, as "von Humboldt's Views of Nature" or "the laws of nature"; not for "the nature of science" or "the nature of psychoanalytic theory"
Allowable Qualifiers: No qualifiers
Public MeSH Note: 97
History Note: 97
DeCS ID: 33176
Unique ID: D019368
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Date Established: 1997/01/01
Date of Entry: 1996/06/10
Revision Date: 2008/07/08
Nature - Preferred
Concept UI M0028823
Scope note The system of all phenomena in space and time; the totality of physical reality. It is both a scientific and philosophic concept appearing in all historic eras. (Webster 2d; Dr. James H. Cassedy, NLM History of Medicine Division)
Preferred term Nature



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