acupuncture therapy

Preferred Label : acupuncture therapy;

MeSH definition : Treatment of disease by inserting needles along specific pathways or meridians. The placement varies with the disease being treated. It is sometimes used in conjunction with heat, moxibustion, acupressure, or electric stimulation.;

MeSH synonym : therapy, acupuncture; Acupuncture Treatment; Acupuncture Treatments; Treatment, Acupuncture;

DeCS synonym : Acupotomy; Pharmacoacupuncture Treatment; Pharmacoacupuncture Therapy; Acupotomies;

Wikipedia automatic translation : Acupuncture;

MeSH hyponym : Treatment, Pharmacoacupuncture; Pharmacoacupuncture Therapy; Therapy, Pharmacoacupuncture; Acupotomies;

MeSH annotation : do not confuse with ACUPUNCTURE, the specialty; ACUPUNCTURE, EAR is also available; Oriental taking of pulses PULSE appropriate acupuncture or Oriental medicine terms; do not confuse with ACUPUNCTURE, the specialty; ACUPUNCTURE, EAR is also available;

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

Details

Origin ID

D015670;

UMLS CUI

C0394664;

Allowable qualifiers
- adverse effects [MeSH Qualifier]
- classification [MeSH Qualifier]
- contraindications [MeSH Qualifier]
- economics [MeSH Qualifier]
- ethics [MeSH Qualifier]
- history [MeSH Qualifier]
- instrumentation [MeSH Qualifier]
- methods [MeSH Qualifier]
- mortality [MeSH Qualifier]
- nursing [MeSH Qualifier]
- psychology [MeSH Qualifier]
- standards [MeSH Qualifier]
- statistics and numerical data [MeSH Qualifier]
- trends [MeSH Qualifier]
- veterinary [MeSH Qualifier]
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- ACUPUNCTURE [Cladimed Gamm]
- Acupuncture [ICHI action]
Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- Acupuncture [MedDRA Preferred Term]
- Acupuncture [HPMULTI term]
- Acupuncture [UNESCO concept]
- Acupuncture (procedure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Acupuncture Therapy [DeCS]
- Acupuncture Therapy [NCIt concept]
- acupuncture [MedlinePlus Topic]
- acupuncture [CISMeF Metaterm]
- acupuncture [Blood Transfusion thesaurus concept]
- acupuncture, nos [SNOMED Notion]
MedlinePlus topic(s)
- acupuncture [MedlinePlus Topic]
Metaterm(s)
- acupuncture [CISMeF Metaterm]
Record concept(s)
- Acupotomy [MeSH concept]
- Pharmacoacupuncture Treatment [MeSH concept]
- acupuncture therapy [MeSH concept]
See also
- acupuncture [MeSH Descriptor]
- medicine, chinese traditional [MeSH Descriptor]
- medicine, east asian traditional [MeSH Descriptor]
See also (suggested by CISMeF)
- acupuncture points [MeSH Descriptor]
See also inter- (CISMeF)
- Acupuncture [DeCS]
Semantic type(s)
- Therapeutic or Preventive Procedure [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Acupuncture [MedDRA Preferred Term]
- Acupuncture [LOINC method]
- Acupuncture (procedure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Acupuncture Therapy [NCIt concept]
- acupuncture [MedlinePlus Topic]
- acupuncture, nos [SNOMED Notion]

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