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Descriptor English: Erythrocyte Deformability
Descriptor Spanish: Deformación Eritrocítica
Descriptor deformabilidad de los eritrocitos
Entry term(s) deformabilidad del eritrocito
deformabilidad eritrocitaria
filtrabilidad de los eritrocitos
Scope note: Capacidad de los ERITROCITOS de cambiar de forma cuando atraviesan espacios estrechos, como la microvasculatura.
Descriptor Portuguese: Deformação Eritrocítica
Descriptor French: Déformabilité érythrocytaire
Entry term(s): Deformability, Erythrocyte
Erythrocyte Filterability
Filterability, Erythrocyte
Tree number(s): G09.188.370.249
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D004907
Scope note: Ability of ERYTHROCYTES to change shape as they pass through narrow spaces, such as the microvasculature.
Annotation: note category: do not confuse with ERYTHROCYTES, ABNORMAL: deformability is a normal desirable characteristic of erythrocytes; coord with disease /blood, not /physiopathol
Allowable Qualifiers: DE drug effects
ES ethics
GE genetics
IM immunology
PH physiology
RE radiation effects
Previous Indexing: Erythrocytes (1966-1984)
Erythrocytes, Abnormal (1968-1984)
Public MeSH Note: 85
History Note: 85
Related: Hemorheology MeSH
DeCS ID: 4994
Unique ID: D004907
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1985/01/01
Date of Entry: 1984/05/30
Revision Date: 2008/07/08
Erythrocyte Deformability - Preferred
Concept UI M0007699
Scope note Ability of ERYTHROCYTES to change shape as they pass through narrow spaces, such as the microvasculature.
Preferred term Erythrocyte Deformability
Entry term(s) Deformability, Erythrocyte
Erythrocyte Filterability
Filterability, Erythrocyte



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