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Descriptor English:

Prostate

Descriptor Spanish:

Próstata

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Descriptor	próstata
Scope note:	Glándula masculina que rodea el cuello de la VEJIGA y la URETRA. Segrega una sustancia que contribuye a la licuefacción del semen coagulado. Está situada en la cavidad pélvica detrás de la parte inferior de la SÍNFISIS PÚBICA, por encima de la capa profunda del ligamento triangular, y descansa sobre el RECTO.

Descriptor Portuguese:

Próstata

Descriptor French:

Prostate

Entry term(s):

Glande prostatique

Tree number(s):

A05.360.444.575
A10.336.707

RDF Unique Identifier:

https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D011467

Scope note:

A gland in males that surrounds the neck of the URINARY BLADDER and the URETHRA. It secretes a substance that liquefies coagulated semen. It is situated in the pelvic cavity behind the lower part of the PUBIC SYMPHYSIS, above the deep layer of the triangular ligament, and rests upon the RECTUM.

Annotation:

adenoma, hyperplasia & hypertrophy = PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA; /surg: probably PROSTATECTOMY; inflammation = PROSTATITIS; PROSTATE-SPECIFIC ANTIGEN (a serine proteinase) is available: do not confuse with prostate-specific acid phosphatase ( = PROSTATE + ACID PHOSPHATASE)

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AB malformations
AH anatomie et histologie
BS vascularisation
CH composition chimique
CY cytologie
DE effets des médicaments et des substances chimiques
DG imagerie diagnostique
EM embryologie
EN enzymologie
GD croissance et développement
IM immunologie
IN traumatismes
IR innervation
ME métabolisme
MI microbiologie
PA anatomopathologie
PH physiologie
PP physiopathologie
PS parasitologie
RE effets des radiations
SU chirurgie
TR transplantation
UL ultrastructure
VI virologie