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MeSH Heading: Mercury Poisoning
Tree Number(s): C25.723.522.875
Unique ID: D008630
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D008630
Annotation: coordinate with specific mercury compound /‌pois if pertinent; occupational mercury poisoning: coordinate with OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES but not also OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE
Scope Note: Poisoning that results from chronic or acute ingestion, injection, inhalation, or skin absorption of MERCURY or MERCURY COMPOUNDS.
Entry Version: MERCURY POIS
Entry Term(s): Poisoning, Mercury
NLM Classification #: QV 293
Date Introduced: 1966/01/01
Last Updated: 2017/06/20

Allowable Qualifiers: blood (BL)

cerebrospinal fluid (CF)

classification (CL)

complications (CO)

congenital (CN)

diagnosis (DI)

diagnostic imaging (DG)

diet therapy (DH)

drug therapy (DT)

economics (EC)

embryology (EM)

enzymology (EN)

epidemiology (EP)

ethnology (EH)

etiology (ET)

genetics (GE)

history (HI)

immunology (IM)

metabolism (ME)

microbiology (MI)

mortality (MO)

nursing (NU)

parasitology (PS)

pathology (PA)

physiopathology (PP)

prevention & control (PC)

psychology (PX)

radiotherapy (RT)

rehabilitation (RH)

surgery (SU)

therapy (TH)

urine (UR)

veterinary (VE)

virology (VI)

Mercury Poisoning MeSH Descriptor Data 2026