Acupuncture Therapy

Preferred Label : Acupuncture Therapy;

NCIt related terms : acupuncture;

NCIt definition : The practice of piercing specific points on the body with very thin sterile needles in order to relieve pain or induce regional anesthesia.;

Alternative definition : NCI-GLOSS: The technique of inserting thin needles through the skin at specific points on the body to control pain and other symptoms. It is a type of complementary and alternative medicine.;

Codes from synonyms : CDR0000046724;

Details

Origin ID

C15176;

UMLS CUI

C0394664;

Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- ACUPUNCTURE [Cladimed Gamm]
- Acupuncture [PCS code]
- Acupuncture [ICHI action]
- Acupuncture point (body structure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- acupuncture points [MeSH Descriptor]
Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- Acupuncture [DeCS]
- Acupuncture [HPMULTI term]
- Acupuncture [LOINC method]
- Acupuncture [UNESCO concept]
- Acupuncture [MedDRA Preferred Term]
- Acupuncture (procedure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- Acupuncture Therapy [DeCS]
- acupuncture [Blood Transfusion thesaurus concept]
- acupuncture [CISMeF Metaterm]
- acupuncture [MedlinePlus Topic]
- acupuncture [MeSH Descriptor]
- acupuncture [MeSH concept]
- acupuncture therapy [MeSH Descriptor]
- acupuncture therapy [MeSH concept]
- acupuncture, nos [SNOMED Notion]
Semantic type(s)
- Therapeutic or Preventive Procedure [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Acupuncture [LOINC method]
- Acupuncture [MedDRA Preferred Term]
- Acupuncture (procedure) [SNOMED CT concept]
- acupuncture [MedlinePlus Topic]
- acupuncture therapy [MeSH concept]
- acupuncture therapy [MeSH Descriptor]
- acupuncture, nos [SNOMED Notion]
concept_is_in_subset
- CPTAC Codelists Terminology [NCIt concept]
- CPTAC Terminology [NCIt concept]
- CPTAC Treatments Codelist [NCIt concept]
- CRF4 Treatment Complementary Table [NCIt concept]
- CTRP Intervention Terminology [NCIt concept]
- CTRP Terminology [NCIt concept]

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