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Descriptor English: Immersion Foot
Descriptor Spanish: Pie de Inmersión
Descriptor pie de inmersión
Entry term(s) pie de trinchera
Scope note: Afección del pie producida por la exposición prolongada del pie al agua. La exposición durante 48 horas o más al agua templada produce el pie de inmersión tropical o pie de inmersión en agua tibia en Vietnam donde las tropas estuvieron expuestas a ataques prolongados o repetidos en arrozales o corrientes. El pie de trinchera se produce por la exposición prolongada al frio, sin que exista congelación. Fue común en las trincheras de guerra durante la Primera Guerra Mundial, cuando los soldados estaban parados, en ocasiones durante horas, en las trincheras con algunas pulgadas de agua fría en ellas.
Descriptor Portuguese: Pé de Imersão
Descriptor French: Pied d'immersion
Entry term(s): Feet, Immersion
Feet, Trench
Foot, Immersion
Foot, Trench
Immersion Feet
Trench Feet
Trench Foot
Tree number(s): C17.800.321.500
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D007102
Scope note: A condition of the feet produced by prolonged exposure of the feet to water. Exposure for 48 hours or more to warm water causes tropical immersion foot or warm-water immersion foot common in Vietnam where troops were exposed to prolonged or repeated wading in paddy fields or streams. Trench foot results from prolonged exposure to cold, without actual freezing. It was common in trench warfare during World War I, when soldiers stood, sometimes for hours, in trenches with a few inches of cold water in them. (Andrews' Diseases of the Skin, 8th ed, p27)
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: TRENCH FOOT was heading 1963-94
Online Note: use IMMERSION FOOT to search TRENCH FOOT 1966-94
History Note: TRENCH FOOT was heading 1963-94
DeCS ID: 7284
Unique ID: D007102
NLM Classification: WE 880
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1960/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 1999/11/03
Immersion Foot - Preferred
Concept UI M0011062
Scope note A condition of the feet produced by prolonged exposure of the feet to water. Exposure for 48 hours or more to warm water causes tropical immersion foot or warm-water immersion foot common in Vietnam where troops were exposed to prolonged or repeated wading in paddy fields or streams. Trench foot results from prolonged exposure to cold, without actual freezing. It was common in trench warfare during World War I, when soldiers stood, sometimes for hours, in trenches with a few inches of cold water in them. (Andrews' Diseases of the Skin, 8th ed, p27)
Preferred term Immersion Foot
Entry term(s) Feet, Immersion
Foot, Immersion
Immersion Feet
Trench Feet - Narrower
Concept UI M0011063
Preferred term Trench Feet
Entry term(s) Feet, Trench
Foot, Trench
Trench Foot



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