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Descriptor English: Manual Communication
Descriptor Spanish: Comunicación Manual
Descriptor comunicación manual
Scope note: Método de comunicación no verbal que utiliza los movimientos de las manos como equivalentes del habla.
Descriptor Portuguese: Comunicação Manual
Descriptor French: Communication manuelle
Entry term(s): Communication, Manual
Communications, Manual
Manual Communications
Tree number(s): E02.760.169.063.500.200.609
E02.831.200.609
F01.145.209.530.702
L01.143.649.526
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D008369
Scope note: Method of nonverbal communication utilizing hand movements as speech equivalents.
Annotation: SIGN LANGUAGE & NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION are also available
Allowable Qualifiers: No qualifiers
Previous Indexing: Nonverbal Communication (1970-1971)
Public MeSH Note: 74; SIGN LANGUAGE was heading 1963-65
History Note: 74(72)
DeCS ID: 8541
Unique ID: D008369
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1974/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2016/05/31
Manual Communication - Preferred
Concept UI M0013013
Scope note Method of nonverbal communication utilizing hand movements as speech equivalents.
Preferred term Manual Communication
Entry term(s) Communication, Manual
Communications, Manual
Manual Communications



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