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MeSH Heading: Infant, Extremely Low Birth Weight
Tree Number(s): M01.060.703.520.460.600.500
Unique ID: D052577
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D052577
Scope Note: An infant whose weight at birth is less than 1000 grams (2.2 lbs), regardless of GESTATIONAL AGE.
Entry Term(s): Extremely Low Birth Weight Infant
Previous Indexing: Infant, Low Birth Weight (1977-1996); Infant, Very Low Birth Weight (1996-2006)
See Also: Infant, Extremely Premature
Public MeSH Note: 2007
History Note: 2007
Date Established: 2007/01/01
Date of Entry: 2006/07/05
Revision Date: 2012/07/03

Allowable Qualifiers: blood (BL)

cerebrospinal fluid (CF)

growth & development (GD)

immunology (IM)

metabolism (ME)

physiology (PH)

psychology (PX)

urine (UR)

Infant, Extremely Low Birth Weight MeSH Descriptor Data 2024