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Arteriosclerosis

"Arteriosclerosis" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Thickening and loss of elasticity of the walls of ARTERIES of all sizes. There are many forms classified by the types of lesions and arteries involved, such as ATHEROSCLEROSIS with fatty lesions in the ARTERIAL INTIMA of medium and large muscular arteries.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Arteriosclerosis" by people in this website by year, and whether "Arteriosclerosis" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 28 publications over 9 distinct years, with a maximum of 12 publications in 2004
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