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Descriptor English: Vitreous Detachment
Descriptor Spanish: Desprendimiento del Vítreo
Descriptor desprendimiento del vítreo
Entry term(s) despredimiento del vítreo posterior
Scope note: Separación del cuerpo vítreo (CUERPO VÍTREO) de su sitio normal, especialmente la retina, producida por edema que se produce por condiciones degenerativas o inflamatorias, trauma, miopía o envejecimiento.
Descriptor Portuguese: Descolamento do Vítreo
Descriptor French: Décollement du vitré
Entry term(s): Detachment, Posterior Vitreous
Detachment, Vitreous
Detachments, Posterior Vitreous
Detachments, Vitreous
Posterior Vitreous Detachment
Posterior Vitreous Detachments
Vitreous Detachment, Posterior
Vitreous Detachments
Vitreous Detachments, Posterior
Tree number(s): C11.980
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D020255
Scope note: Detachment of the corpus vitreum (VITREOUS BODY) from its normal attachments, especially the retina, due to shrinkage from degenerative or inflammatory conditions, trauma, myopia, or senility.
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced
CL classification
CN congenital
CO complications
DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy
DI diagnosis
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EH ethnology
EM embryology
EN enzymology
EP epidemiology
ET etiology
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
MO mortality
NU nursing
PA pathology
PC prevention & control
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
RT radiotherapy
SU surgery
TH therapy
UR urine
VE veterinary
VI virology
Previous Indexing: Vitreous Body (1968-1998)
Public MeSH Note: 99
History Note: 99
DeCS ID: 33767
Unique ID: D020255
NLM Classification: WW 250
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1999/01/01
Date of Entry: 1998/06/11
Vitreous Detachment - Preferred
Concept UI M0029919
Scope note Detachment of the corpus vitreum (VITREOUS BODY) from its normal attachments, especially the retina, due to shrinkage from degenerative or inflammatory conditions, trauma, myopia, or senility.
Preferred term Vitreous Detachment
Entry term(s) Detachment, Vitreous
Detachments, Vitreous
Vitreous Detachments
Posterior Vitreous Detachment - Narrower
Concept UI M0029920
Preferred term Posterior Vitreous Detachment
Entry term(s) Detachment, Posterior Vitreous
Detachments, Posterior Vitreous
Posterior Vitreous Detachments
Vitreous Detachment, Posterior
Vitreous Detachments, Posterior



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