 Sex Characteristics
"Sex Characteristics" 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.
Those characteristics that distinguish one SEX from the other. The primary sex characteristics are the OVARIES and TESTES and their related hormones. Secondary sex characteristics are those which are masculine or feminine but not directly related to reproduction.
| Descriptor ID |
D012727
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G08.686.815
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| Concept/Terms |
Sex Characteristics- Sex Characteristics
- Characteristic, Sex
- Characteristics, Sex
- Sex Characteristic
- Sex Differences
- Difference, Sex
- Differences, Sex
- Sex Difference
- Sex Dimorphism
- Dimorphism, Sex
- Dimorphisms, Sex
- Sex Dimorphisms
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Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Sex Characteristics".
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Sex Characteristics" by people in this website by year, and whether "Sex Characteristics" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 1991 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1996 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 1998 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1999 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2000 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2004 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2005 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2006 | 1 | 3 | 4 | | 2007 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2009 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2011 | 3 | 0 | 3 | | 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2014 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2015 | 0 | 8 | 8 | | 2016 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 2017 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2018 | 5 | 3 | 8 | | 2019 | 7 | 4 | 11 | | 2020 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Sex Characteristics" by people in Profiles.
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Fan CC, Banks SJ, Thompson WK, Chen CH, McEvoy LK, Tan CH, Kukull W, Bennett DA, Farrer LA, Mayeux R, Schellenberg GD, Andreassen OA, Desikan R, Dale AM. Sex-dependent autosomal effects on clinical progression of Alzheimer's disease. Brain. 2020 07 01; 143(7):2272-2280.
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Eggerstedt M, Smith RM, Revenaugh PC. Sexual Dimorphism of the Nasal Skin and Soft Tissue Envelope. Aesthetic Plast Surg. 2020 10; 44(5):1924-1925.
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Patel DV, Yoo JS, Karmarkar SS, Lamoutte EH, Singh K. Sex Differences on Postoperative Pain and Disability Following Minimally Invasive Lumbar Discectomy. Clin Spine Surg. 2019 12; 32(10):E444-E448.
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Schwarzschild MA, Macklin EA, Bakshi R, Battacharyya S, Logan R, Espay AJ, Hung AY, Bwala G, Goetz CG, Russell DS, Goudreau JL, Parashos SA, Saint-Hilaire MH, Rudolph A, Hare JM, Curhan GC, Ascherio A. Sex differences by design and outcome in the Safety of Urate Elevation in PD (SURE-PD) trial. Neurology. 2019 10 01; 93(14):e1328-e1338.
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Dumitrescu L, Barnes LL, Thambisetty M, Beecham G, Kunkle B, Bush WS, Gifford KA, Chibnik LB, Mukherjee S, De Jager PL, Kukull W, Crane PK, Resnick SM, Keene CD, Montine TJ, Schellenberg GD, Deming Y, Chao MJ, Huentelman M, Martin ER, Hamilton-Nelson K, Shaw LM, Trojanowski JQ, Peskind ER, Cruchaga C, Pericak-Vance MA, Goate AM, Cox NJ, Haines JL, Zetterberg H, Blennow K, Larson EB, Johnson SC, Albert M. Sex differences in the genetic predictors of Alzheimer's pathology. Brain. 2019 09 01; 142(9):2581-2589.
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Kravitz HM. Sex Differences in Grant Funding. JAMA. 2019 08 13; 322(6):578-580.
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Kim SI, Ha KY, An HS, Rhyu KW, Lee HW, Oh IS. Sex-specific and Age-specific Analgesia for Early Postoperative Pain Management After Lumbar Decompressive Surgery: A Randomized Clinical Trial. Clin Spine Surg. 2019 08; 32(7):E311-E318.
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Nwabuobi L, Barbosa W, Sweeney M, Oyler S, Meisel T, Di Rocco A, Chodosh J, Fleisher JE. Sex-related differences in homebound advanced Parkinson's disease patients. Clin Interv Aging. 2019; 14:1371-1377.
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Sadagurski M, Debarba LK, Werneck-de-Castro JP, Ali Awada A, Baker TA, Bernal-Mizrachi E. Sexual dimorphism in hypothalamic inflammation in the offspring of dams exposed to a diet rich in high fat and branched-chain amino acids. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab. 2019 09 01; 317(3):E526-E534.
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Graham EJ, Vermeulen M, Vardarajan B, Bennett D, De Jager P, Pearse RV, Young-Pearse TL, Mostafavi S. Somatic mosaicism of sex chromosomes in the blood and brain. Brain Res. 2019 10 15; 1721:146345.
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