Diseases

Cellulitis

An acute, diffuse, and suppurative inflammation of loose connective tissue, particularly the deep subcutaneous tissues, and sometimes muscle, which is most commonly seen as a result of infection of a wound, ulcer, or other skin lesions.

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An acute, diffuse, and suppurative inflammation of loose connective tissue, particularly the deep subcutaneous tissues, and sometimes muscle, which is most commonly seen as a result of infection of a wound, ulcer, or other skin lesions.

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  • Phlegmon

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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.

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Indexing Annotation

in French literature "cellulite" can be CELLULITE or CELLULITIS

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History Note

PHLEGMON was heading 1963-78

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  1. C01w.800w.130w
  2. C01w.830.200w
  3. C17.300w.185w
  4. C23.550.470w.756.200w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Cellulitis. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D002481. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D002481
  2. Cellulitis. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellulitis
  3. Cellulitis. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q876887