"Absorbent Pads" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Pads made of various materials used for personal hygiene usually for absorbing URINE or FECES. They can be worn as underpants or pants liners by various age groups, from NEWBORNS to the ELDERLY. Absorbent pads can be made of fluff wood pulp and HYDROGEL absorbent covered with viscose rayon, polyester, polypropylene, or POLYETHYLENE coverstock.
| Descriptor ID |
D041342
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E07.325.068
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| Concept/Terms |
Absorbent Pads- Absorbent Pads
- Absorbent Pad
- Pad, Absorbent
- Pads, Absorbent
Pants Liners- Pants Liners
- Liner, Pants
- Liners, Pants
- Pants Liner
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| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Absorbent Pads" by people in Profiles.
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Diagnosing Postpartum Hemorrhage: A New Way to Assess Blood Loss in a Low-Resource Setting. Matern Child Health J. 2017 03; 21(3):516-523.
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Use of a postoperative pad test to identify continence status in women after obstetric vesicovaginal fistula repair: a prospective cohort study. BJOG. 2017 May; 124(6):966-972.