Used for the identification or quantitative determination of a substance or its constituents and metabolites; includes the analysis of air, water, or other environmental carrier. It excludes the chemical analysis of tissues, tumors, body fluids, organisms, and plants for which "chemistry" is used. The concept applies to both methodology and results. For analysis of substances in blood, cerebrospinal fluid, and urine the specific subheading designating the fluid is used.

Annotation

subhead only; includes "assay", "determination", "chemical analysis"; for qualitative or quantitative analysis of substances; chemical composition of organs, organisms & plants, as "chemical composition of the liver" = LIVER /chemistry; for analysis of chemical substances in the blood use /blood; in the cerebrospinal fluid, use /cerebrospinal fluid; in the urine, use /urine; see MeSH scope note in Introduction; indexing policy: Manual 19.8.6; DF: /anal or /AN

pouze podheslo; užij pro testy, stanovení, chemickou analýzu; pro kvalitativní nebo kvantitativní analýzu látek. Pro chemické složení orgánů, organismů, rostlin např. "chemické složení jater" = játra /chemie; pro analýzu chemických látek v krvi, mozkomíšním moku, moči užij /krev, /mozkomíšní mok, /moč

Abbreviation

AN

DUI

Q000032 MeSH Browser

CUI

M0030237

History note

67; used with Category A, B & D 1967; A, B, D, G & J 1968-74; A, B1, B3-6, C4, D, G3 & J 1975-86; A, B1, B3-6, C4, D, G3, J, ASCITIC FLUID & CALCULI+ 1987; A, B1, B3-6, C4, D, G3, J, ASCITIC FLUID, BRONCHOALVEOLAR LAVAGE FLUID & CALCULI+ 1988-89; A2-16; B1, B3-6, C4, D & J 1990-91; D 1992 forward

Online note

search policy: Online Manual; use: main heading/AN or AN (SH) or SUBS APPLY AN