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Acclimatization MeSH Descriptor Data 2025

MeSH Heading: Acclimatization
Tree Number(s): G07.025.133; G16.012.500.133
Unique ID: D000064
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000064
Annotation: includes to climate, altitude, weather but not to gravity ( = ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL)
Scope Note: Adaptation to a new environment or to a change in the old.
Entry Term(s): Acclimation
Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2016/02/19

Allowable Qualifiers: drug effects (DE)

ethics (ES)

genetics (GE)

immunology (IM)

physiology (PH)

radiation effects (RE)

Physiological Phenomena [G07]
- Adaptation, Physiological [G07.025]
  - Acclimatization [G07.025.133]
    - Salt Tolerance [G07.025.133.250]
    - Thermotolerance [G07.025.133.500]
  - Post-Exercise Recovery [G07.025.566]

Biological Phenomena [G16]
- Adaptation, Biological [G16.012]
  - Adaptation, Physiological [G16.012.500]

Acclimatization Preferred

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