Diseases

Drug-Induced Abnormalities

Congenital abnormalities caused by medicinal substances or drugs of abuse given to or taken by the mother, or to which she is inadvertently exposed during the manufacture of such substances. The concept excludes abnormalities resulting from exposure to non-medicinal chemicals in the environment.

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Congenital abnormalities caused by medicinal substances or drugs of abuse given to or taken by the mother, or to which she is inadvertently exposed during the manufacture of such substances. The concept excludes abnormalities resulting from exposure to non-medicinal chemicals in the environment.

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5 entry terms
  • Abnormalities, Drug-Induced
  • Abnormalities, Drug Induced
  • Abnormality, Drug-Induced
  • Drug Induced Abnormalities
  • Drug-Induced Abnormality

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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, classification, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.

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IM; do not use /chem ind /compl /congen & do not coord with INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; coord IM with specific chem /adv eff-pois-tox (IM) + specific organ /abnorm or specific abnorm /chem ind (IM); Manual 23.20.3

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Drug-Induced Abnormalities. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D000014. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D000014
  2. Drug-Induced Abnormalities. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drugs_in_pregnancy
  3. Drug-Induced Abnormalities. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5308960