DeCS

Descriptor English:

Head

Descriptor Spanish:

Cabeza

Spanish from Spain

Descriptor	cabeza
Scope note:	Parte superior del cuerpo humano o porción frontal o superior del cuerpo de un animal, que se encuentra típicamente separada del resto del cuerpo por el cuello, y que contiene el encéfalo, la boca y los órganos de los sentidos.

Descriptor Portuguese:

Cabeça

Descriptor French:

Tête

Tree number(s):

A01.456

RDF Unique Identifier:

https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006257

Scope note:

The upper part of the human body, or the front or upper part of the body of an animal, typically separated from the rest of the body by a neck, and containing the brain, mouth, and sense organs.

Annotation:

usually NIM as site; soft parts = FACE, bony parts = SKULL; /anat: consider also CEPHALOMETRY; /inj = CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA but consider also SKULL & FACIAL BONES & specifics under each with /inj; HEAD-DOWN TILT is available for physiological aspects of this position

Allowable Qualifiers:

AB malformations
AH anatomie et histologie
BS vascularisation
DG imagerie diagnostique
EM embryologie
GD croissance et développement
IR innervation
MI microbiologie
PA anatomopathologie
PH physiologie
PP physiopathologie
PS parasitologie
RE effets des radiations
SU chirurgie
VI virologie

Entry Combination:

injuries:Craniocerebral Trauma