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Descriptor
English
:
Vitamin D Deficiency
Descriptor
Spanish
:
Deficiencia de Vitamina D
Descriptor
Portuguese
:
Deficiência de Vitamina D
Synonyms
English
:
Deficiency, Vitamin D
Deficiencies, Vitamin D
Vitamin D Deficiencies
Tree Number:
C18.654.521.500.133.770
SP6.016.052.063.119
Definition
English
:
A nutritional condition produced by a deficiency of
VITAMIN D
in the diet, insufficient production of
vitamin D
in the skin, inadequate
absorption
of
vitamin D
from the diet, or abnormal conversion of
vitamin D
to its bioactive metabolites. It is manifested clinically as
RICKETS
in
children
and
OSTEOMALACIA
in
adults
. (From Cecil Textbook of
Medicine
, 19th ed, p1406)
Indexing Annotation
English
:
DF:
VITAMIN D
DEFIC
See Related
English
:
Rickets
Allowable Qualifiers
English
:
BL
blood
CF
cerebrospinal fluid
CI
chemically induced
CL
classification
CO
complications
CN
congenital
DI
diagnosis
DG
diagnostic imaging
DH
diet therapy
DT
drug therapy
EC
economics
EM
embryology
EN
enzymology
EP
epidemiology
EH
ethnology
ET
etiology
GE
genetics
HI
history
IM
immunology
ME
metabolism
MI
microbiology
MO
mortality
NU
nursing
PS
parasitology
PA
pathology
PP
physiopathology
PC
prevention & control
PX
psychology
RT
radiotherapy
RH
rehabilitation
SU
surgery
TH
therapy
UR
urine
VE
veterinary
VI
virology
Record Number:
15210
Unique Identifier:
D014808
Occurrence in VHL
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DeCS
CID-10
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