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Descriptor English: Semen
Descriptor Spanish: Semen
Descriptor semen
Entry term(s) esperma
plasma seminal
Scope note: Secreción blancuzca y viscosa de los órganos reproductores masculinos expulsada con la eyaculación. Está compuesta por ESPERMATOZOIDES en su plasma nutriente, secreciones de la próstata, de las vesículas seminales y de otras glándulas, células epiteliales y otros constituyentes menores. (Dorland 27th ed).
Descriptor Portuguese: Sêmen
Descriptor French: Sperme
Entry term(s): Liquide séminal
Plasma séminal
Tree number(s): A12.200.732
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D012661
Scope note: The thick, yellowish-white, viscid fluid secretion of male reproductive organs discharged upon ejaculation. In addition to reproductive organ secretions, it contains SPERMATOZOA and their nutrient plasma.
Annotation: semen donors: coord SEMEN (IM) + TISSUE DONORS (IM); consider also INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL, HOMOLOGOUS (husband) (IM) or INSEMINATION, ARTIFICIAL, HETEROLOGOUS (non-husband) (IM) if pertinent; HEMOSPERMIA is available
Allowable Qualifiers: CH composition chimique
CY cytologie
DE effets des médicaments et des substances chimiques
DG imagerie diagnostique
EN enzymologie
IM immunologie
ME métabolisme
MI microbiologie
PH physiologie
PS parasitologie
RE effets des radiations
VI virologie
Related: Banques de sperme MeSH
Spermatozoïdes MeSH
DeCS ID: 13043
Unique ID: D012661
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2006/07/05
Sperme - Preferred
Concept UI M0019628
Preferred term Sperme
Entry term(s) Liquide séminal
Plasma séminal - Narrower
Concept UI M0019629
Preferred term Plasma séminal



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