euthanasia - CISMeF

Preferred Label : euthanasia;

MeSH definition : The act or practice of killing or allowing death from natural causes, for reasons of mercy, i.e., in order to release a person from incurable disease, intolerable suffering, or undignified death. (from Beauchamp and Walters, Contemporary Issues in Bioethics, 5th ed);

MeSH synonym : killing, mercy; killings, mercy; mercy killings; mercy killing;

MeSH hyponym : involuntary euthanasia;

MeSH annotation : HUMAN only; EUTHANASIA, ANIMAL is available for animals; EUTHANASIA, ACTIVE and EUTHANASIA, PASSIVE are also available;

Wikipedia link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthanasia;

Details

Origin ID

D005065;

UMLS CUI

C0015187;

Allowable qualifiers
- classification [MeSH Qualifier]
- ethics [MeSH Qualifier]
- history [MeSH Qualifier]
- legislation and jurisprudence [MeSH Qualifier]
- psychology [MeSH Qualifier]
- statistics and numerical data [MeSH Qualifier]
- trends [MeSH Qualifier]
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Euthanasia [HPMULTI term]
- Euthanasia [UNESCO concept]
- euthanasia [DeCS]
- euthanasia [Artificial nutrition thesaurus concept]
Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- Euthanasia [MedDRA Preferred Term]
- Euthanasia (event) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Euthanasia (procedure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Terminal Sedation [NCIt concept]
- euthanasia [Q-code]
- euthanasia [SNOMED Notion]
Record concept(s)
- euthanasia [MeSH concept]
See also
- bioethical issues [MeSH Descriptor]
- right to die [MeSH Descriptor]
- suicide, assisted [MeSH Descriptor]
See also (suggested by CISMeF)
- euthanasia, active [MeSH Descriptor]
- euthanasia, passive [MeSH Descriptor]
- terminal care [MeSH Descriptor]
Semantic type(s)
- Health Care Activity [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Euthanasia [MedDRA Preferred Term]
- Euthanasia (event) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Euthanasia (procedure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Terminal Sedation [NCIt concept]
- euthanasia [SNOMED Notion]

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