Disease

"Disease" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A definite pathologic process with a characteristic set of signs and symptoms. It may affect the whole body or any of its parts, and its etiology, pathology, and prognosis may be known or unknown.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Disease" by people in this website by year, and whether "Disease" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 12 publications over 9 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 2008 and 2010 and 2011
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