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Descriptor English: Terminally Ill
Descriptor Spanish: Enfermo Terminal
Descriptor enfermo terminal
Scope note: Persona con una enfermedad incurable o irreversible en estadio final que da lugar a la muerte en poco tiempo. (O'Leary et al., Lexikon: Dictionary of Health Care Terms, Organizations, and Acronyms for the Era of Reform, 1994, p780)
Descriptor Portuguese: Doente Terminal
Descriptor French: Malades en phase terminale
Entry term(s): Ill, Terminally
Tree number(s): M01.873
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D019452
Scope note: Persons with an incurable or irreversible illness at the end stage that will result in death within a short time. (From O'Leary et al., Lexikon: Dictionary of Health Care Terms, Organizations, and Acronyms for the Era of Reform, 1994, p780)
Annotation: the terminal patient himself; care of the terminal patient = TERMINAL CARE
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
HI history
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
PX psychology
SN statistics & numerical data
Previous Indexing: Terminal Care (1966-1996)
Public MeSH Note: 97
History Note: 97
DeCS ID: 33200
Unique ID: D019452
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1997/01/01
Date of Entry: 1996/06/10
Revision Date: 1998/06/11
Terminally Ill - Preferred
Concept UI M0028941
Scope note Persons with an incurable or irreversible illness at the end stage that will result in death within a short time. (From O'Leary et al., Lexikon: Dictionary of Health Care Terms, Organizations, and Acronyms for the Era of Reform, 1994, p780)
Preferred term Terminally Ill
Entry term(s) Ill, Terminally



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