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Descriptor English: Hibernation
Descriptor Spanish: Hibernación
Descriptor hibernación
Entry term(s) hibernación artificial
Scope note: Estado durmiente en el que pasan el invierno algunas especies animales de sangre caliente. Se caracteriza por narcosis, marcada reducción de la temperatura corporal y de la actividad metabólica y depresión de los signos vitales.
Descriptor Portuguese: Hibernação
Descriptor French: Hibernation
Entry term(s): Artificial Hibernation
Artificial Hibernations
Hibernation, Artificial
Hibernation, Induced
Hibernations
Induced Hibernation
Induced Hibernations
Tree number(s): G07.110.232.889.500
G07.410.421.889.500
G16.012.500.535.889.500
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006605
Scope note: The dormant state in which some warm-blooded animal species pass the winter. It is characterized by narcosis and by sharp reduction in body temperature and metabolic activity and by a depression of vital signs.
Annotation: animal only; summer dormancy = HIBERNATION
Allowable Qualifiers: DE drug effects
GE genetics
IM immunology
PH physiology
RE radiation effects
Public MeSH Note: 1963; for HIBERNATION, ARTIFICIAL see HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED 1983-2008
History Note: 1963; for HIBERNATION, ARTIFICIAL use HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED 1983-2008
DeCS ID: 6764
Unique ID: D006605
NLM Classification: QL 755
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Date Established: 1963/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2016/06/23
Hibernation - Preferred
Concept UI M0010342
Scope note The dormant state in which some warm-blooded animal species pass the winter. It is characterized by narcosis and by sharp reduction in body temperature and metabolic activity and by a depression of vital signs.
Preferred term Hibernation
Entry term(s) Hibernations
Hibernation, Artificial - Narrower
Concept UI M0515978
Preferred term Hibernation, Artificial
Entry term(s) Artificial Hibernation
Artificial Hibernations
Hibernation, Induced
Induced Hibernation
Induced Hibernations



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