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Descriptor English: Sperm Head
Descriptor Spanish: Cabeza del Espermatozoide
Descriptor cabeza del espermatozoide
Entry term(s) cabeza espermática
Scope note: Porción anterior de los ESPERMATOZOIDES, habitualmente ovoide que contiene principalmente al núcleo, el cual presenta una CROMATINA muy compactada.
Descriptor Portuguese: Cabeça do Espermatozoide
Descriptor French: Tête du spermatozoïde
Entry term(s): Head, Sperm
Heads, Sperm
Sperm Heads
Tree number(s): A05.360.490.890.820
A11.497.760.400
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D013077
Scope note: The anterior portion of the spermatozoon (SPERMATOZOA) that contains mainly the nucleus with highly compact CHROMATIN material.
Allowable Qualifiers: CH chemistry
CL classification
DE drug effects
EN enzymology
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
PA pathology
PH physiology
PS parasitology
RE radiation effects
TR transplantation
UL ultrastructure
VI virology
Public MeSH Note: 91; was see under SPERMATOZOA 1975-90
History Note: 91(75); was see under SPERMATOZOA 1975-90
DeCS ID: 13460
Unique ID: D013077
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Date Established: 1991/01/01
Date of Entry: 1974/11/11
Revision Date: 2002/07/03
Sperm Head - Preferred
Concept UI M0020265
Scope note The anterior portion of the spermatozoon (SPERMATOZOA) that contains mainly the nucleus with highly compact CHROMATIN material.
Preferred term Sperm Head
Entry term(s) Head, Sperm
Heads, Sperm
Sperm Heads



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