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Descriptor English: Hyperthermia
Descriptor Spanish: Hipertermia
Descriptor hipertermia
Entry term(s) hiperpirexia
Scope note: Elevación anormal de la temperatura corporal, generalmente a consecuencia de la incapacidad de regular la temperatura corporal central debido a factores no patológicos.
Descriptor Portuguese: Hipertermia
Descriptor French: Hyperthermie
Entry term(s): Hyperpyrexia
Hyperpyrexias
Hyperthermias
Tree number(s): C23.888.119.455
C26.522.750
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000084462
Scope note: An abnormal elevation of body temperature, usually as a result of inability to regulate core body temperature due to non-pathologic factors.
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: 2021; for Hyperthermia use under Heat Stroke 1985-2020
History Note: 2021; for Hyperthermia was under Heat Stroke 1985-2020
Related: Hyperthermia, Induced MeSH
Malignant Hyperthermia MeSH
DeCS ID: 59561
Unique ID: D000084462
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Date Established: 2021/01/01
Date of Entry: 2020/07/07
Revision Date: 2021/10/18
Hyperthermia - Preferred
Concept UI M000678021
Scope note An abnormal elevation of body temperature, usually as a result of inability to regulate core body temperature due to non-pathologic factors.
Preferred term Hyperthermia
Entry term(s) Hyperthermias
Hyperpyrexia - Narrower
Concept UI M000751531
Preferred term Hyperpyrexia
Entry term(s) Hyperpyrexias



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