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Descriptor English: Sirenia
Descriptor Spanish: Sirenia
Descriptor Sirenia
Scope note: Orden de mamíferos herbívoros, totalmente acuáticos, de movimientos lentos y constitución fuerte. El cuerpo es fusiforme, voluminoso y carece de pelo, excepto las cerdas del hocico. Carecen de extremidades posteriores, las anteriores están modificadas y forman aletas, y la cola es una aleta horizontal. (Scott, Concise Encyclopedia Biology, 1996)
Descriptor Portuguese: Sirênios
Descriptor French: Sirenia
Tree number(s): B01.050.150.900.649.313.250.750
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D020453
Scope note: An order of heavy-bodied, slow-moving, completely aquatic, herbivorous mammals. The body is fusiform, plump, and hairless, except for bristles on the snout. Hindlimbs are absent, the forelimbs are modified to flippers, and the tail is a horizontal fluke. (From Scott, Concise Encyclopedia Biology, 1996)
Allowable Qualifiers: AB abnormalities
AH anatomy & histology
BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CL classification
EM embryology
GD growth & development
GE genetics
IM immunology
IN injuries
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
PH physiology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
SU surgery
UR urine
VI virology
Previous Indexing: Mammals (1966-1998)
Public MeSH Note: 99; see MAMMALS 1998; see SIRENIA 1963-67
History Note: 99; 63-97; use MAMMALS 1998; use SIRENIA 1963-67
DeCS ID: 33712
Unique ID: D020453
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1999/01/01
Date of Entry: 1998/06/11
Revision Date: 2017/07/12
Sirenia - Preferred
Concept UI M0030119
Scope note An order of heavy-bodied, slow-moving, completely aquatic, herbivorous mammals. The body is fusiform, plump, and hairless, except for bristles on the snout. Hindlimbs are absent, the forelimbs are modified to flippers, and the tail is a horizontal fluke. (From Scott, Concise Encyclopedia Biology, 1996)
Preferred term Sirenia



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