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Jaw Cysts MeSH Descriptor Data 2025


MeSH Heading
Jaw Cysts
Tree Number(s)
C04.182.089.530
C05.500.470
C07.320.450
Unique ID
D007570
RDF Unique Identifier
http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D007570
Annotation
non-neoplastic; coordinate with precoordinated organ/disease term
Scope Note
Saccular lesions lined with epithelium and contained within pathologically formed cavities in the jaw; also nonepithelial cysts (pseudocysts) as they apply to the jaw, e.g., traumatic or solitary cyst, static bone cavity, and aneurysmal bone cyst. True jaw cysts are classified as odontogenic or nonodontogenic.
NLM Classification #
WU 140.5
Previous Indexing
Bone Cysts (1966-1979)
Cysts (1966-1979)
Jaw Diseases (1967-1979)
Jaw Neoplasms (1967-1979)
specific jaw disease
specific jaw neoplasm
Public MeSH Note
80
History Note
80
Date Established
1980/01/01
Date of Entry
1979/04/25
Revision Date
1990/06/05
Jaw Cysts Preferred
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