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Descriptor English: Cheek
Descriptor Spanish: Mejilla
Descriptor mejilla
Entry term(s) cachete
Scope note: Parte de la cara situada por debajo de los ojos y a ambos lados de la nariz y la boca.
Descriptor Portuguese: Bochecha
Descriptor French: Joue
Tree number(s): A01.456.505.173
A14.194
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D002610
Scope note: The part of the face that is below the eye and to the side of the nose and mouth.
Annotation: for that external portion of face or that internal portion of mouth; NIM for hamster cheek pouch; buccal mucosa = MOUTH MUCOSA (IM) + CHEEK (NIM); cheek bone fracture = ZYGOMATIC FRACTURES
Allowable Qualifiers: AB malformations
AH anatomie et histologie
BS vascularisation
DG imagerie diagnostique
EM embryologie
GD croissance et développement
IN traumatismes
IR innervation
MI microbiologie
PA anatomopathologie
PH physiologie
PP physiopathologie
PS parasitologie
RE effets des radiations
SU chirurgie
VI virologie
DeCS ID: 2655
Unique ID: D002610
NLM Classification: WE 705
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: 2015/03/02
Joue - Preferred
Concept UI M0003998
Preferred term Joue



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