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Jaundice, Neonatal

"Jaundice, Neonatal" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

Yellow discoloration of the SKIN; MUCOUS MEMBRANE; and SCLERA in the NEWBORN. It is a sign of NEONATAL HYPERBILIRUBINEMIA. Most cases are transient self-limiting (PHYSIOLOGICAL NEONATAL JAUNDICE) occurring in the first week of life, but some can be a sign of pathological disorders, particularly LIVER DISEASES.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Jaundice, Neonatal" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Jaundice, Neonatal" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 43 publications over 23 distinct years, with a maximum of 8 publications in 2004
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.