Diseases

Poisoning

A condition or physical state produced by the ingestion, injection, inhalation of or exposure to a deleterious agent.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

Structured Summary

Abstract

A condition or physical state produced by the ingestion, injection, inhalation of or exposure to a deleterious agent.

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Used as a Subheading

Poisoning is also a MeSH subheading (qualifier Q000506), attached to other headings to focus them on this aspect:

Used with drugs, chemicals, and industrial materials for human or animal poisoning, acute or chronic, whether the poisoning is accidental, occupational, suicidal, by medication error, or by environmental exposure.

Qualifier ID
Q000506
Qualifier Tree
Y07.020.010, Y10.040

Indexing annotation

subheading only; for clinical & veterinary only; for human & animal experiments use /toxicity; see also /adverse effects & /toxicity

Subheading synonyms

  • poisonous effects

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Synonyms

1 entry terms
  • Poisonings

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Aspects Covered

34 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, 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

a disease concept: the discipline = TOXICOLOGY; general only; prefer /pois with Category D & J terms: Manual 19.7+, 19.8.57, 19.9+, 25.11.4; sometimes called "toxicoses" & often called "intoxication" in foreign literature.

MeSH Hierarchy

Tree Number

  1. C25.723

AMA Style

References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Poisoning. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D011041. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D011041
  2. Poisoning. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q114953