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Descriptor English: Planarians
Descriptor Spanish: Planarias
Descriptor planarias
Scope note: Gusanos platelmintos no parásitos de vida libre de la clase Turbellaria. Los géneros más comunes son Dugesia, previamente Planaria, que viven en el agua, y Bipalium, que viven en la tierra. La Geoplana se encuentra en América del Sur y en California.
Descriptor Portuguese: Planárias
Descriptor French: Planaires
Entry term(s): Dugesia
Dugesias
Planarian
Tree number(s): B01.050.500.500.736.847.610
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D010932
Scope note: Nonparasitic free-living flatworms of the class Turbellaria. The most common genera are Dugesia, formerly Planaria, which lives in water, and Bipalium, which lives on land. Geoplana occurs in South America and California.
Annotation: non-parasitic flatworms used in regeneration experiments
Allowable Qualifiers: AH anatomy & histology
CH chemistry
CL classification
CY cytology
DE drug effects
EM embryology
EN enzymology
GD growth & development
GE genetics
IM immunology
IP isolation & purification
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
PH physiology
PS parasitology
PY pathogenicity
RE radiation effects
UL ultrastructure
VI virology
Public MeSH Note: 91; was see under TURBELLARIA 1975-90
Online Note: search TURBELLARIA 1966-74
History Note: 91(75); was see under TURBELLARIA 1975-90
DeCS ID: 11364
Unique ID: D010932
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1991/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2009/07/06
Planarians - Preferred
Concept UI M0016952
Scope note Nonparasitic free-living flatworms of the class Turbellaria. The most common genera are Dugesia, formerly Planaria, which lives in water, and Bipalium, which lives on land. Geoplana occurs in South America and California.
Preferred term Planarians
Entry term(s) Planarian
Dugesia - Narrower
Concept UI M0016951
Preferred term Dugesia
Entry term(s) Dugesias



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