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Descriptor English: Euphoria
Descriptor Spanish: Euforia
Descriptor euforia
Scope note: Exagerado sentimiento de bienestar físico y emocional que no está en consonancia con el estímulo o motivo aparente. Generalmente, la euforia tiene un origen psicológico, aunque también se produce en encefalopatías orgánicas y estados de intoxicación.
Descriptor Portuguese: Euforia
Descriptor French: Euphorie
Entry term(s): Euphorias
Tree number(s): F01.470.323
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D005059
Scope note: An exaggerated feeling of physical and emotional well-being not consonant with apparent stimuli or events; usually of psychologic origin, but also seen in organic brain disease and toxic states.
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
DE drug effects
ES ethics
PH physiology
RE radiation effects
DeCS ID: 5156
Unique ID: D005059
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Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 1992/05/15
Euphoria - Preferred
Concept UI M0007947
Scope note An exaggerated feeling of physical and emotional well-being not consonant with apparent stimuli or events; usually of psychologic origin, but also seen in organic brain disease and toxic states.
Preferred term Euphoria
Entry term(s) Euphorias



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