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Descriptor English: Cerumen
Descriptor Spanish: Cerumen
Descriptor cerumen
Entry term(s) cera del oído
Scope note: Secreciones céreas amarillentas o marrones producidas por las glándulas sudoríparas apocrinas vestigiales del conducto auditivo externo.
Descriptor Portuguese: Cerume
Descriptor French: Cérumen
Entry term(s): Cire d'oreille
Cire des oreilles
Tree number(s): A12.200.147
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D002571
Scope note: The yellow or brown waxy secretions produced by vestigial apocrine sweat glands in the external ear canal.
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
DeCS ID: 2611
Unique ID: D002571
NLM Classification: WV 222
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: 2001/07/25
Cérumen - Preferred
Concept UI M0003928
Preferred term Cérumen
Entry term(s) Cire d'oreille
Cire des oreilles



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