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A progressive condition usually characterized by combined failure of several organs such as the lungs, liver, kidney, along with some clotting mechanisms, usually postinjury or postoperative.
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- MODS
- Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome
- Organ Dysfunction Syndrome, Multiple
- Organ Failure, Multiple
- Failure, Multiple Organ
- Multiple Organ Failures
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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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- National Library of Medicine. Multiple Organ Failure. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D009102. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D009102
- Multiple Organ Failure. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_organ_dysfunction_syndrome
- Multiple Organ Failure. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1193870