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Descriptor English: Insecticides
Descriptor Spanish: Insecticidas
Descriptor insecticidas
Entry term(s) insecticida
Scope note: Pesticidas destinados a controlar insectos dañinos para el ser humano. Los insectos pueden ser dañinos directamente, como los vectores de enfermedades, o indirectamente, como los que destruyen cosechas, productos alimentarios o tejidos.
Descriptor Portuguese: Inseticidas
Descriptor French: Insecticides
Entry term(s): Insecticide
Tree number(s): D27.720.031.700.491
D27.888.723.491
SP4.808.749.664.539
VS2.004.001.003.001
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D007306
Scope note: Pesticides designed to control insects that are harmful to man. The insects may be directly harmful, as those acting as disease vectors, or indirectly harmful, as destroyers of crops, food products, or textile fabrics.
Annotation: for use to kill or control insects, use no qualifiers on the insecticide or the insect; appropriate qualifiers may be used when other aspects of the insecticide are discussed such as the effect on a physiologic process or behavioral aspect of the insect.
Allowable Qualifiers: AD administration & dosage
AE adverse effects
AG agonists
AI antagonists & inhibitors
AN analysis
BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CH chemistry
CL classification
CS chemical synthesis
EC economics
HI history
IM immunology
IP isolation & purification
ME metabolism
PD pharmacology
PK pharmacokinetics
PO poisoning
RE radiation effects
SD supply & distribution
ST standards
TO toxicity
TU therapeutic use
UR urine
Related: Cholinesterase Inhibitors MeSH
DeCS ID: 7480
Unique ID: D007306
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2020/05/27
Insecticides - Preferred
Concept UI M0011389
Scope note Pesticides designed to control insects that are harmful to man. The insects may be directly harmful, as those acting as disease vectors, or indirectly harmful, as destroyers of crops, food products, or textile fabrics.
Preferred term Insecticides
Entry term(s) Insecticide



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