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Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases > Metabolic Diseases

Preferred term

Metabolic Diseases  

Type

  • mesh:Descriptor

Definition

  • Generic term for diseases caused by an abnormal metabolic process. It can be congenital due to inherited enzyme abnormality (METABOLISM, INBORN ERRORS) or acquired due to disease of an endocrine organ or failure of a metabolically important organ such as the liver. (Stedman, 26th ed)

Synonym(s)

  • Diseases, Metabolic
  • Thesaurismosis

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