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Abstract
Thickening and loss of elasticity of the walls of muscular ARTERIES due to calcification of the TUNICA MEDIA, the concentric layers of helically arranged SMOOTH MUSCLE CELLS.
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- Medial Calcific Sclerosis
- Monckeberg's Medial Calcific Sclerosis
- Monckeberg's Sclerosis
- Mönckeberg Medial Calcific Sclerosis
- Mönckeberg's Medial Calcific Sclerosis
- Mönckeberg's Sclerosis
- Sclerosis, Monckeberg Medial Calcific
- Sclerosis, Mönckeberg Medial Calcific
- Calcific Scleroses, Medial
- Calcific Sclerosis, Medial
- Medial Calcific Scleroses
- Monckeberg Sclerosis
- Monckebergs Sclerosis
- Mönckeberg Sclerosis
- Mönckebergs Sclerosis
- Scleroses, Medial Calcific
- Sclerosis, Medial Calcific
- Sclerosis, Monckeberg's
- Sclerosis, Mönckeberg's
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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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2006; use ARTERIOSCLEROSIS 2001-2005
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- Arteriosclerosis (1999-2005)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Monckeberg Medial Calcific Sclerosis. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D050380. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D050380
- Monckeberg Medial Calcific Sclerosis. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monckeberg%27s_arteriosclerosis
- Monckeberg Medial Calcific Sclerosis. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q938991