medical waste disposal

Preferred Label : medical waste disposal;

MeSH definition : Management, removal, and elimination of biologic, infectious, pathologic, and dental waste. The concept includes blood, mucus, tissue removed at surgery or autopsy, soiled surgical dressings, and other materials requiring special control and handling. Disposal may take place where the waste is generated or elsewhere.;

MeSH synonym : disposal, medical waste; waste disposal, medical;

MeSH Hyperonym : biological waste disposal; Waste Disposal, Biological; Biologic Waste Disposal; Disposal, Biologic Waste; Waste Disposal, Biologic; Disposal, Biological Waste;

MeSH hyponym : waste disposal, pathological; waste disposal, infectious; specimen disposal; Disposal, Infectious Waste; Infectious Waste Disposal; Disposal, Specimen; Disposal, Pathological Waste; Pathological Waste Disposal;

MeSH annotation : disposal of dental waste: coord IM with DENTAL WASTE (IM);

Details

Origin ID

D017744;

UMLS CUI

C0206204;

Allowable qualifiers
- economics [MeSH Qualifier]
- ethics [MeSH Qualifier]
- history [MeSH Qualifier]
- instrumentation [MeSH Qualifier]
- legislation and jurisprudence [MeSH Qualifier]
- methods [MeSH Qualifier]
- standards [MeSH Qualifier]
- statistics and numerical data [MeSH Qualifier]
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Medical Waste Disposal [DeCS]
- Specimen Processing [NCIt concept]
- Specimen care (regime/therapy) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Specimen processing (procedure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- specimen processing, nos [SNOMED Notion]
Record concept(s)
- biological waste disposal [MeSH concept]
- medical waste disposal [MeSH concept]
- specimen disposal [MeSH concept]
- waste disposal, infectious [MeSH concept]
- waste disposal, pathological [MeSH concept]
Semantic type(s)
- Health Care Activity [UMLS semantic type]

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