NLM Classification Schedule WD

QS QT QU QV QW QX QY QZ W WA WB WC WD WE WF WG WH WI WJ WK WL WM WN WO WP WQ WR WS WT WU WV WW WX WY WZ

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WD Disorders of Systemic, Metabolic or Environmental Origin, etc.
	The WD schedule consists of a series of small tables which deal with subjects that cannot be readily integrated into other schedules because of the underlying framework of the Classification. Classify works on history or societies in the general number for each table.
	WD 100-175 Nutrition Disorders
	WD 200-226 Metabolic Diseases
	WD 200-200.1 General Metabolic Diseases
	WD 200.5-214 Specific Metabolic Diseases
	WD 220-226 Water-Electrolyte Imbalance
	WD 300-380 Immunologic and Collagen Diseases. Hypersensitivity
	WD 400-430 Animal Poisons
	WD 500-530 Plant Poisons
	WD 600-670 Disorders and Injuries of Environmental Origin
	WD 700-745 Aviation Medicine
	WD 750-758 Space Medicine
	WD 800 Naval Medicine
	Nutrition Disorders
	Classify works on nutrition disorders in infancy and childhood in WS 115-130; in the aged in WT 115.

WD 100	General works
	Classify here works on particular nutrition disorders not included below or elsewhere classified.

WD 101	Handbooks. Resource guides (Used for both monographs and serials)

WD 105	Deficiency diseases (General or not elsewhere classified)
	Classify works on deficiency of hormones in WK; on deficiencies as etiological factors in particular diseases with the disease.
WD 110	Vitamin A deficiency (e.g., Night blindness)
WD 120	Vitamin B deficiency
WD 122	Thiamine deficiency (e.g., Beriberi)
WD 124	Riboflavin deficiency
WD 126	Pellagra
WD 140	Ascorbic acid deficiency (e.g., Scurvy)
WD 145	Vitamin D deficiency (e.g., Rickets)
WD 150	Vitamin E deficiency
WD 155	Vitamin K deficiency

WD 175	Celiac disease. Sprue
	Metabolic Diseases General Metabolic Diseases

WD 200	General works
	Classify works on diabetes and related conditions in WK; on achlorhydria in WI 308.

WD 200.1	Handbooks. Resource guides (Used for both monographs and serials)
	Specific Metabolic Diseases

WD 200.5	Specific diseases or groups of diseases not classified elsewhere, A-Z
WD 200.5.C2	Calcium metabolism disorders
	Classify works on deficiency diseases in WD 100-175.
WD 200.5.G6	Glucose metabolism disorders
	Classify works on diabetes mellitus in WK 810-850.
WD 200.5.H5	Hyperammonemia
WD 200.5.H8	Lipid metabolism disorders
	Classify inborn errors in WD 205.5.L5.
WD 200.5.H9	Hyperprolactinemia
WD 200.5.I7	Iron metabolism disorders
WD 200.5.M2	Malabsorption syndromes
	Classify works on celiac disease and sprue in WD 175. Classify works for the gastroenterologist in WI 500.
WD 200.5.M6	Mitochondrial diseases
WD 200.5.P4	Phosphorus metabolism disorders
WD 200.5.P7	Protein-losing enteropathies

WD 205	Inborn errors of metabolism (General)
	Classify works on the hemolytic anemias in WH 170; on chronic idiopathic jaundice in WI 703; on errors of renal tubular transport in WJ 301.
WD 205.5	Specific errors or groups of errors not elsewhere classified, A-Z
WD 205.5.A5	Amino acid metabolism
	Classify works on albinism in WR 265.
WD 205.5.A6	Amyloidosis
WD 205.5.C2	Carbohydrate metabolism
WD 205.5.H9	Hyperbilirubinemia, Hereditary
WD 205.5.L5	Lipid metabolism
WD 205.5.M3	Metal metabolism (General)
	Classify works on specific disorders separately.
WD 205.5.M4	Minerals
WD 205.5.P2	Paralyses, Familial periodic
WD 205.5.P6	Porphyrias
WD 205.5.P8	Purine-pyrimidine metabolism
	Classify works on gout in WE 350.
WD 205.5.X2	Xanthomatosis

WD 210	Overweight. Obesity
	Classify works on reducing diets here or in WD 212 below.
WD 212	Popular works

WD 214	Adiposis dolorosa. Lipomatosis. Lipodystrophy
	Classify works on panniculitis in WR 220; on lipochondrodystrophy in WD 205.5.C2.
	Water-Electrolyte Imbalance

WD 220	Water-electrolyte imbalance. Acid-base imbalance
	Classify works on water-electrolyte balance and acid base equilibrium in QU 105.
WD 222	Acidosis
	Classify works on diabetic acidosis in WK 830; on renal tubular acidosis in WJ 301; on respiratory acidosis in WF 140.
WD 226	Alkalosis
	Immunologic and Collagen Diseases. Hypersensitivity
	This schedule is for works on diseases that are largely systemic. Classify works on the hematologic diseases in WH; on disorders associated with transplantation in WO 680; on phagocytic bactericidal dysfunction and associated conditions in QW 690.

WD 300	General works
	Classify works on asthma in WF 553; on hay fever in WV 335; on dermatitis in WR 160; on respiratory hypersensitivity in WF 150.

WD 301	Handbooks. Resource guides (Used for both monographs and serials)

WD 305	Autoimmune diseases (General)

WD 308	Immune complex disease. Immunologic deficiency syndromes (General or not elsewhere classified)
	Classify works on acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and other HIV infections in WC 503-503.7.

WD 310	Food hypersensitivity

WD 320	Drug hypersensitivity

WD 330	Serum sickness

WD 375	Collagen diseases and other connective tissue diseases (General)
	Cf. WE 346 Rheumatoid arthritis; WG 240 Rheumatic heart disease; WC 220 Rheumatic fever; WG 518 Periarteritis nodosa; WG 520 Thromboangiitis obliterans; WD 380 Lupus erythematosus, Systemic; WR 260 Scleroderma, Systemic.

WD 380	Systemic lupus erythematosus
	Cf. WR 152 Cutaneous lupus; WR 245 Lupus vulgaris.
	Animal Poisons
	Classify here works about animal poisons, poisonous animals, and bites and stings (general or not elsewhere classified). Classify works about diseases caused by animals with the disease.

WD 400	General works

WD 401	Handbooks. Resource guides (Used for both monographs and serials)

WD 405	Marine forms

WD 410	Reptiles

WD 420	Spiders. Scorpions. Centipedes. Leeches

WD 430	Insects
	Plant Poisons
	Classify here works about toxic plants and plant poisoning (general or not elsewhere classified). Classify works about specific plants and diseases caused by plants under the plant or disease.

WD 500	General works
	Cf. QV 627 Organic poisons.

WD 501	Handbooks. Resource guides (Used for both monographs and serials)

WD 505	Ergotism

WD 515	Favism

WD 520	Mushroom poisoning

WD 530	Milk sickness
	Disorders and Injuries of Environmental Origin

WD 600	General works
	Classify material on burns in WO 704; on blast injuries in WO 820; on radiation injuries in WN 610.

WD 601	Handbooks. Resource guides (Used for both monographs and serials)

WD 602	Electric injuries

WD 605	Non-ionizing radiation injuries (General)

WD 610	Heat exhaustion. Sunstroke

WD 630	Motion sickness (e.g., Seasickness. Airsickness)

WD 640	Vibration disorders (General)
	Classify works on vibration as a cause of disease in QZ 57; on aviation effects in WD 735; on control in industry in WA 470; on therapeutic use in WB 535.

WD 650	High air pressure. Submarine medicine
WD 655	Anoxia
	Cf. WF 143 Respiratory symptoms; WD 715 Aviation medicine.

WD 670	Hypothermia
	Classify here works written for the practicing physician, such as those on diagnosis, treatment, etc. Classify works on pathogenesis of hypothermia in QZ 57; studies of normal physiological effects of cold in QT 160; on induced hypothermia in WO 350.
	Aviation Medicine
	Classify works combining both atmospheric and space flight in WD 700-745; on Space flight alone in WD 750-758. Classify here works on diseases associated with high altitude on earth as well as in the air.

WD 700	General works
	Classify material on aerotitis media in WV 232; on vision in WW.

WD 701	Handbooks. Resource guides (Used for both monographs and serials)

WD 703	Dictionaries. Encyclopedias (Used for both monographs and serials)

WD 704	Research (General)
	Classify here works about research in general, in aviation medicine alone or in aviation medicine and space medicine combined. Classify works about research in space medicine alone in WD 751. Classify works about research on a particular subject, by subject.

WD 705	Personnel selection and fitness. Physical standards

WD 710	Altitude effects
WD 712	Decompression sickness
WD 715	Anoxia. Inert gas narcosis

WD 720	Speed. Acceleration. Deceleration. Gravitation. Rotation (e.g., G force)
	Classify works on airsickness in WD 630.

WD 730	Psychological aspects (e.g., Fear. Stress)

WD 735	Fatigue. Effect of noise. Effect of vibration

WD 740	Aviation accidents. Protective devices

WD 745	Aviation dentistry
	Space Medicine

WD 750	General works (including works on broad aspects of space flight)

WD 751	Research (General)
	Classify works about research on a particular subject by subject.

WD 751.6	Informatics. Automatic data processing. Computers (General)
	Classify works on use for special subjects by subject.

WD 752	Physiological aspects

WD 754	Psychological aspects (e.g., Fear. Stress)

WD 756	Closed ecological systems

WD 758	Extraterrestrial environment
	Naval Medicine

WD 800	General works