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Descriptor English: Affect
Descriptor Spanish: Afecto
Descriptor afecto
Scope note: Tono sentimental que acompaña a una idea o representación mental. Se trata del derivado psíquico más directo del instinto y la representación psíquica de los diversos cambios corporales mediante los cuales se manifiestan los instintos.
Descriptor Portuguese: Afeto
Descriptor French: Affect
Entry term(s): Affects
Mood
Moods
Tree number(s): F01.470.047
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000339
Scope note: The feeling-tone accompaniment of an idea or mental representation. It is the most direct psychic derivative of instinct and the psychic representative of the various bodily changes by means of which instincts manifest themselves.
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
DE drug effects
ES ethics
PH physiology
RE radiation effects
Public MeSH Note: 65; was see under EMOTIONS 1963-64
History Note: 65(64); was see under EMOTIONS 1963-64
DeCS ID: 344
Unique ID: D000339
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1965/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 1992/03/25
Affect - Preferred
Concept UI M0000520
Scope note The feeling-tone accompaniment of an idea or mental representation. It is the most direct psychic derivative of instinct and the psychic representative of the various bodily changes by means of which instincts manifest themselves.
Preferred term Affect
Entry term(s) Affects
Mood - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M0000521
Preferred term Mood
Entry term(s) Moods



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