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Descriptor English: Testis
Descriptor Spanish: Testículo
Descriptor testículo
Entry term(s) testículos
Scope note: Gónada masculina con dos partes funcionales: los TÚBULOS SEMINÍFEROS que intervienen en la producción y transporte de las células germinales masculinas (ESPERMATOGÉNESIS) y el compartimento intersticial que comprende las CÉLULAS DE LEYDIG productoras de ANDRÓGENOS.
Descriptor Portuguese: Testículo
Descriptor French: Testicule
Entry term(s): Testicules
Testis
Tree number(s): A05.360.444.849
A05.360.576.782
A06.300.312.782
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D013737
Scope note: The male gonad containing two functional parts: the SEMINIFEROUS TUBULES for the production and transport of male germ cells (SPERMATOGENESIS) and the interstitial compartment containing LEYDIG CELLS that produce ANDROGENS.
Annotation: torsion = SPERMATIC CORD TORSION; inflammation = ORCHITIS; /abnorm: agenesis or dysgenesis: coord TESTIS /abnorm (IM) with GONADAL DYSGENESIS (IM); /cytol: consider also LEYDIG CELLS; /surg is probably ORCHIECTOMY; excision = ORCHIECTOMY
Allowable Qualifiers: 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
Related: Orchidectomie MeSH
DeCS ID: 14116
Unique ID: D013737
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Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2018/06/30
Testicule - Preferred
Concept UI M0021193
Preferred term Testicule
Entry term(s) Testicules
Testis



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