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Descriptor English: Infant, Newborn, Diseases
Descriptor Spanish: Enfermedades del Recién Nacido
Descriptor enfermedades del recién nacido
Entry term(s) enfermedades del lactante neonato
enfermedades del neonato
enfermedades neonatológicas
Scope note: Enfermedades de los lactantes neonatos, que se evidencian ya al nacer (congénitas) o que se desarrollan durante el primer mes. No se incluyen las enfermedades hereditarias que no se manifiestan al nacer o durante los primeros 30 días de la vida, ni los trastornos congénitos del metabolismo. Tanto las ENFERMEDADES HEREDITARIAS como los TRASTORNOS CONGÉNITOS DEL METABOLISMO se entienden como concepto general.
Descriptor Portuguese: Doenças do Recém-Nascido
Descriptor French: Maladies néonatales
Entry term(s): Disease, Neonatal
Diseases, Neonatal
Neonatal Disease
Neonatal Diseases
Tree number(s): C16.614
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D007232
Scope note: Diseases of newborn infants present at birth (congenital) or developing within the first month of birth. It does not include hereditary diseases not manifesting at birth or within the first 30 days of life nor does it include inborn errors of metabolism. Both HEREDITARY DISEASES and METABOLISM, INBORN ERRORS are available as general concepts.
Annotation: general only; for specific disease in newborn infant index specific disease + check tag INFANT, NEWBORN
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced
CL classification
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
Entry Version: INFANT NEWBORN DIS
Related: Congenital Abnormalities MeSH
DeCS ID: 7405
Unique ID: D007232
NLM Classification: WS 421
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Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2016/02/26
Infant, Newborn, Diseases - Preferred
Concept UI M0011286
Scope note Diseases of newborn infants present at birth (congenital) or developing within the first month of birth. It does not include hereditary diseases not manifesting at birth or within the first 30 days of life nor does it include inborn errors of metabolism. Both HEREDITARY DISEASES and METABOLISM, INBORN ERRORS are available as general concepts.
Preferred term Infant, Newborn, Diseases
Entry term(s) Disease, Neonatal
Diseases, Neonatal
Neonatal Disease
Neonatal Diseases



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