Diseases

Growth Disorders

Deviations from the average values for a specific age and sex in any or all of the following: height, weight, skeletal proportions, osseous development, or maturation of features. Included here are both acceleration and retardation of growth.

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Abstract

Deviations from the average values for a specific age and sex in any or all of the following: height, weight, skeletal proportions, osseous development, or maturation of features. Included here are both acceleration and retardation of growth.

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Synonyms

6 entry terms
  • Stunted Growth
  • Stunting
  • Disorder, Growth
  • Growth Disorder
  • Growth, Stunted
  • Stuntings

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Aspects Covered

35 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, 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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Indexing Annotation

do not confuse with NUTRITION DISORDERS (disorders of assimilating & utilizing nutrients)

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History Note

72(69)

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Previous Indexing

  • Growth (1966-1968)

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  1. C23.550.393

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Growth Disorders. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D006130. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D006130
  2. Growth Disorders. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2538477