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Descriptor English:   Contracture 
Descriptor Spanish:   Contractura 
Descriptor Portuguese:   Contratura 
Tree Number:   C05.550.323
C05.651.197
Definition English:   Prolonged shortening of the muscle or other soft tissue around a joint, preventing movement of the joint. 
Indexing Annotation English:   coordinate IM with specific muscle or other tissue or site (IM) but not with MUSCLES, skeletal; also available are DUPUYTREN'S CONTRACTURE; HIP CONTRACTURE; VOLKMANN CONTRACTURE & EQUINUS CONTRACTURE
Allowable Qualifiers English:  
blood cerebrospinal fluid
chemically induced classification
congenital complications
diet therapy diagnosis
drug therapy economics
ethnology embryology
enzymology epidemiology
etiology genetics
history immunology
metabolism microbiology
mortality nursing
pathology prevention & control
physiopathology parasitology
psychology radiography
rehabilitation radionuclide imaging
radiotherapy surgery
therapy urine
ultrasonography veterinary
virology  
Record Number:   3305 
Unique Identifier:   D003286 

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