National Cancer Institute Thesaurus

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Preferred Name

Erosion
Synonyms

EROSION

Erosion

Definitions

An eating away or breakdown of any type of external or internal human tissue including but not limited to skin, teeth, mucosa, or somatic, which involves only the outer tissue layer. When tissue surrounds an implanted device, the tissue breakdown may result in migration and loss of the implant material and may result in further complications such as infection or abscess.

ID

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C50443

ALT_DEFINITION

An eating away or breakdown of any type of external or internal human tissue including but not limited to skin, teeth, mucosa, or somatic, which involves only the outer tissue layer. When tissue surrounds an implanted device, the tissue breakdown may result in migration and loss of the implant material and may result in further complications such as infection or abscess.

A shallow or superficial destruction of a surface, without destruction of the basement membrane. (INHAND)

code

C50443

Concept_In_Subset

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C62596

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C54450

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C77526

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C61410

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C120531

Contributing_Source

CDISC

FDA

DEFINITION

An eating away or breakdown of any type of external or internal human tissue including but not limited to skin, teeth, mucosa, or somatic, which involves only the outer tissue layer. When tissue surrounds an implanted device, the tissue breakdown may result in migration and loss of the implant material and may result in further complications such as infection or abscess.

FDA_Table

Patient Code (Appendix B)

FULL_SYN

EROSION

Erosion

label

Erosion

Legacy Concept Name

Erosion

Preferred_Name

Erosion

prefixIRI

Thesaurus:C50443

Semantic_Type

Finding

UMLS_CUI

C1959609

xRef

IMDRF:E2006

subClassOf

http://ncicb.nci.nih.gov/xml/owl/EVS/Thesaurus.owl#C61375

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