"Carbon Monoxide" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Carbon monoxide (CO). A poisonous colorless, odorless, tasteless gas. It combines with hemoglobin to form carboxyhemoglobin, which has no oxygen carrying capacity. The resultant oxygen deprivation causes headache, dizziness, decreased pulse and respiratory rates, unconsciousness, and death. (From Merck Index, 11th ed)
| Descriptor ID |
D002248
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D01.200.250 D01.362.200 D01.650.550.250
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1998 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
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