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Descriptor English: Cold Injury
Descriptor Spanish: Lesión por Frío
Descriptor daños provocados por el frio
Scope note: Una lesión física causada por la exposición del cuerpo a temperatura ambiente extremadamente bajas que pueden conducir a la pérdida de partes del cuerpo, o en casos extremos, la muerte. Como ejemplos de lesiones por frío son la congelación y sabañones.
Descriptor Portuguese: Lesão por Frio
Descriptor French: Lésion due au froid
Entry term(s): Cold Injuries
Injuries, Cold
Injury, Cold
Tree number(s): C26.212
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000067390
Scope note: A physical injury caused by exposure of the body to extremely low ambient temperatures that may lead to loss of body parts, or in extreme cases, death. Examples of cold injury are FROSTBITE and CHILBLAINS.
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: 2016
History Note: 2016
DeCS ID: 55853
Unique ID: D000067390
NLM Classification: WD 670
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Date Established: 2016/01/01
Date of Entry: 2015/07/07
Revision Date: 2015/07/06
Cold Injury - Preferred
Concept UI M000599150
Scope note A physical injury caused by exposure of the body to extremely low ambient temperatures that may lead to loss of body parts, or in extreme cases, death. Examples of cold injury are FROSTBITE and CHILBLAINS.
Preferred term Cold Injury
Entry term(s) Cold Injuries
Injuries, Cold
Injury, Cold



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