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Abstract
Organic substances that are required in small amounts for maintenance and growth, but which cannot be manufactured by the human body.
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- Vitamin
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Indexed with the subheadings administration & dosage, adverse effects, agonists, analysis, antagonists & inhibitors, biosynthesis, blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemical synthesis, chemistry, classification, economics, genetics, history, immunology, isolation & purification, metabolism, pharmacokinetics, pharmacology, physiology, poisoning, radiation effects, standards, supply & distribution, therapeutic use, toxicity, urine.
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deficiency = AVITAMINOSIS but prefer specific precoordinated vitamin deficiency terms (avitaminosis A = VITAMIN A DEFICIENCY, etc.); /ther use: coordinate with disease term with either /drug ther or /diet ther depending on whether the vitamin is discussed as a drug or a dietary supplement
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- National Library of Medicine. Vitamins. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D014815. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D014815
- Vitamins. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin
- Vitamins. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q34956