Biomaterial Database

Kaposi's sarcoma and volcanic soils. 1994

C A Stiller

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D010219	Papua New Guinea	A country consisting of the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and adjacent islands, including New Britain, New Ireland, the Admiralty Islands, and New Hanover in the Bismarck Archipelago; Bougainville and Buka in the northern Solomon Islands; the D'Entrecasteaux and Trobriand Islands; Woodlark (Murua) Island; and the Louisiade Archipelago. It became independent on September 16, 1975. Formerly, the southern part was the Australian Territory of Papua, and the northern part was the UN Trust Territory of New Guinea, administered by Australia. They were administratively merged in 1949 and named Papua and New Guinea, and renamed Papua New Guinea in 1971.	New Guinea, East,New Guinea, Papua
D011891	Rain	Water particles that fall from the ATMOSPHERE.	Rains
D004190	Disasters	Calamities producing great damage, loss of life, and distress. They include results of natural phenomena and man-made phenomena. Normal conditions of existence are disrupted and the level of impact exceeds the capacity of the hazard-affected community.
D004604	Elephantiasis	Hypertrophy and thickening of tissues from causes other than filarial infection, the latter being described as ELEPHANTIASIS, FILARIAL.	Bigfoot Disease,Elephantiasis Nostras Verrucosa,Endemic Elephantiasis,Endemic Non-Filarial Elephantiasis,Lymphostatic Verrucosis,Microcrystal Disease,Mossy foot,Podoconiosis,Bigfoot Diseases,Disease, Bigfoot,Disease, Microcrystal,Diseases, Bigfoot,Diseases, Microcrystal,Elephantiases,Elephantiases, Endemic,Elephantiases, Endemic Non-Filarial,Elephantiasis Nostras Verrucosas,Elephantiasis, Endemic,Elephantiasis, Endemic Non-Filarial,Endemic Elephantiases,Endemic Non Filarial Elephantiasis,Endemic Non-Filarial Elephantiases,Lymphostatic Verrucoses,Microcrystal Diseases,Mossy foots,Non-Filarial Elephantiases, Endemic,Non-Filarial Elephantiasis, Endemic,Nostras Verrucosa, Elephantiasis,Nostras Verrucosas, Elephantiasis,Podoconioses,Verrucosa, Elephantiasis Nostras,Verrucosas, Elephantiasis Nostras,Verrucoses, Lymphostatic,Verrucosis, Lymphostatic,foot, Mossy,foots, Mossy
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000328	Adult	A person having attained full growth or maturity. Adults are of 19 through 44 years of age. For a person between 19 and 24 years of age, YOUNG ADULT is available.	Adults
D000349	Africa	The continent south of EUROPE, east of the ATLANTIC OCEAN and west of the INDIAN OCEAN.
D012514	Sarcoma, Kaposi	A multicentric, malignant neoplastic vascular proliferation characterized by the development of bluish-red cutaneous nodules, usually on the lower extremities, most often on the toes or feet, and slowly increasing in size and number and spreading to more proximal areas. The tumors have endothelium-lined channels and vascular spaces admixed with variably sized aggregates of spindle-shaped cells, and often remain confined to the skin and subcutaneous tissue, but widespread visceral involvement may occur. Kaposi's sarcoma occurs spontaneously in Jewish and Italian males in Europe and the United States. An aggressive variant in young children is endemic in some areas of Africa. A third form occurs in about 0.04% of kidney transplant patients. There is also a high incidence in AIDS patients. (From Dorland, 27th ed & Holland et al., Cancer Medicine, 3d ed, pp2105-7) HHV-8 is the suspected cause.	Kaposi Sarcoma,Kaposi's Sarcoma,Multiple Idiopathic Pigmented Hemangiosarcoma,Kaposis Sarcoma,Sarcoma, Kaposi's
D012987	Soil	The unconsolidated mineral or organic matter on the surface of the earth that serves as a natural medium for the growth of land plants.	Peat,Humus,Soils
D014329	Tropical Climate	A climate which is typical of equatorial and tropical regions, i.e., one with continually high temperatures with considerable precipitation, at least during part of the year. (McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 4th ed)	Climate, Tropical,Climates, Tropical,Tropical Climates