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Descriptor English: Pinguecula
Descriptor Spanish: Pinguécula
Descriptor pinguécula
Scope note: Gruesa lesión amarillenta en la conjuntiva cerca de la CÓRNEA que representa un cambio degenerativo benigno en la CONJUNTIVA causada por el fuga y deposición de ciertas proteínas sanguíneas a través de los capilares permeables cerca del LIMBO.
Descriptor Portuguese: Pinguécula
Descriptor French: Pinguécula
Entry term(s): Pingueculas
Tree number(s): C11.187.631
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D059407
Scope note: A yellowish thickened lesion on the conjunctiva near the CORNEA representing a benign degenerative change in the CONJUNCTIVA caused by the leakage and deposition of certain blood proteins through the permeable capillaries near the LIMBUS.
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
Public MeSH Note: 2012
History Note: 2012
DeCS ID: 54527
Unique ID: D059407
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Date Established: 2012/01/01
Date of Entry: 2011/06/24
Pinguecula - Preferred
Concept UI M0549838
Scope note A yellowish thickened lesion on the conjunctiva near the CORNEA representing a benign degenerative change in the CONJUNCTIVA caused by the leakage and deposition of certain blood proteins through the permeable capillaries near the LIMBUS.
Preferred term Pinguecula
Entry term(s) Pingueculas



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