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Descriptor English: Adrenal Glands
Descriptor Spanish: Glándulas Suprarrenales
Descriptor glándulas suprarrenales
Entry term(s) glándula suprarrenal
glándulas adrenales
Scope note: Pareja de glándulas localizadas en el polo craneal de cada uno de los RIÑONES. Cada glándula suprarrenal está compuesta por dos tejidos endocrinos diferentes, con diferente origen embriológico: la CORTEZA SUPRARRENAL, productora de ESTEROIDES, y la MÉDULA SUPRARRENAL que produce NEUROTRANSMISORES.
Descriptor Portuguese: Glândulas Suprarrenais
Descriptor French: Glandes surrénales
Entry term(s): Glande surrénale
Surrénale
Surrénales
Tree number(s): A06.300.071
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000311
Scope note: A pair of glands located at the cranial pole of each of the two KIDNEYS. Each adrenal gland is composed of two distinct endocrine tissues with separate embryonic origins, the ADRENAL CORTEX producing STEROIDS and the ADRENAL MEDULLA producing NEUROTRANSMITTERS.
Annotation: /surg = probably ADRENALECTOMY; hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal axis: coord HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM + PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; hyperplasia = ADRENAL GLANDS /pathol (IM) + HYPERPLASIA (NIM); congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) = ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA, CONGENITAL
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: Surrénalectomie MeSH
DeCS ID: 314
Unique ID: D000311
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: 2018/06/30
Glandes surrénales - Preferred
Concept UI M0000486
Preferred term Glandes surrénales
Entry term(s) Glande surrénale
Surrénale
Surrénales



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