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Descriptor English: Sex
Descriptor Spanish: Sexo
Descriptor sexo
Scope note: Totalidad de las características de la estructura, funciones, FENOTIPO y GENOTIPO reproductivos que diferencian el organismo del MACHO del organismo de la HEMBRA.
Descriptor Portuguese: Sexo
Descriptor French: Sexe
Entry term(s): Sexe biologique
Sexe génotypique
Sexe phénotypique
Tree number(s): G08.686.810
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D012723
Scope note: The totality of characteristics of reproductive structure, functions, PHENOTYPE, and GENOTYPE, differentiating the MALE from the FEMALE organism.
Annotation: differentiate from SEX FACTORS, largely statist in concept; sex therapy: coord PSYCHOTHERAPY (IM) + SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION, PHYSIOLOGICAL /ther or PSYCHOSEXUAL DYSFUNCTIONS /ther or their indentions /ther (IM)
Allowable Qualifiers: No qualifiers
Entry Combination: education:Sex Education
Related: Caractères sexuels MeSH
Comportement sexuel MeSH
Détermination du sexe MeSH
Développement psychosexuel MeSH
Libido MeSH
Religion et sexualité MeSH
DeCS ID: 13104
Unique ID: D012723
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Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2010/06/28
Sexe - Preferred
Concept UI M0019710
Preferred term Sexe
Entry term(s) Sexe biologique
Sexe phénotypique - Narrower
Concept UI M0446359
Preferred term Sexe phénotypique
Sexe génotypique - Narrower
Concept UI M0446358
Preferred term Sexe génotypique



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