Bone Mineral Density

Preferred Label : Bone Mineral Density;

NCIt related terms : bone mass; BMD;

Alternative definition : NCI-GLOSS: A measure of the amount of minerals (mostly calcium and phosphorous) contained in a certain volume of bone. Bone mass measurements are used to diagnose osteoporosis (a condition marked by decreased bone mass), to see how well osteoporosis treatments are working, and to predict how likely the bones are to break. Low bone mass can occur in patients treated for cancer.;

Codes from synonyms : CDR0000415884; CDR0000415875; CDR0000415882;

Details

Origin ID

C96950;

UMLS CUI

C0005938;

Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Becker muscular dystrophy [ORDO Disease]
- Best vitelliform macular dystrophy [ORDO Disease]
- Muscular dystrophy, becker type [OMIM Phenotype]
- bestrophin 1 [ORDO Gene]
- dystrophin [ORDO Gene]
- muscular dystrophy, duchenne [MeSH Descriptor]
Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- Bone density [LOINC component]
- bone density [MeSH Descriptor]
- bone density [MeSH concept]
- bone density [MedlinePlus Topic]
False automatic mappings
- Macular dystrophy, vitelliform, 2 [OMIM Phenotype]
Semantic type(s)
- Clinical Attribute [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Bone density [LOINC component]
- Bone density [LOINC part]
- bone density [MeSH Descriptor]
- bone density [MeSH concept]
- bone density [MedlinePlus Topic]

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