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Descriptor English: Chronobiology Discipline
Descriptor Spanish: Disciplina de Cronobiología
Descriptor cronobiología
Entry term(s) cronobiología, disciplina
Scope note: Campo interdisciplinar de la investigación y la práctica profesional que estudia la periodicidad de los sistemas biológicos y la aplicación de los principios de cronobiología a diversas estrategias terapéuticas. Se incluyen el envejecimiento, los ritmos biológicos, y los fenómenos cíclicos. Para describir, en terminología matemática, las diferentes funciones biológicas a lo largo del tiempo, se recurre a la estadística y los procedimientos matemáticos asistidos por ordenador.
Descriptor Portuguese: Cronobiologia
Descriptor French: Chronobiologie (discipline)
Tree number(s): H01.158.580
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D055881
Scope note: A multidisciplinary field of research and practice studying the periodicity of biological systems and the application of principles of chronobiology to various therapeutic strategies. Aging, biological rhythms, and cyclic phenomena are included. Statistical, computer-aided mathematical procedures are used to describe, in mathematical terminology, various biological functions over time.
Annotation: the discipline (education, history, etc) only; use CHRONOBIOLOGY PHENOMENA or specifics treed under it for characteristics and processes of biological systems as affected by time
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
EC économie
ED enseignement et éducation
ES éthique
HI histoire
IS instrumentation
LJ législation et jurisprudence
MT méthodes
OG organisation et administration
SN statistiques et données numériques
ST normes
TD tendances
Related: Chronopharmacothérapie MeSH
Chronothérapie MeSH
Chronothérapie sur les phases de sommeil MeSH
Phénomènes chronobiologiques MeSH
DeCS ID: 53361
Unique ID: D055881
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Date Established: 2009/01/01
Date of Entry: 2008/07/08
Revision Date: 2008/11/30
Chronobiologie (discipline) - Preferred
Concept UI M0521611
Preferred term Chronobiologie (discipline)



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