"Barium Sulfate" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A compound used as an x-ray contrast medium that occurs in nature as the mineral barite. It is also used in various manufacturing applications and mixed into heavy concrete to serve as a radiation shield.
| Descriptor ID |
D001466
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D01.103.075 D01.875.800.800.850.075
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2006 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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