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Descriptor English: Feathers
Descriptor Spanish: Plumas
Descriptor plumas
Scope note: Estructuras queratinosas planas que se encuentran en la superficie cutánea de las aves. Las plumas están constituidas parcialmente por un cañón hueco flanqueado por barbas. En conjunto constituyen el plumaje.
Descriptor Portuguese: Plumas
Descriptor French: Plumes
Entry term(s): Plumage
Tree number(s): A13.370
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D005241
Scope note: Flat keratinous structures found on the skin surface of birds. Feathers are made partly of a hollow shaft fringed with barbs. They constitute the plumage.
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
DeCS ID: 5344
Unique ID: D005241
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: 2017/07/11
Plumes - Preferred
Concept UI M0008280
Preferred term Plumes
Entry term(s) Plumage



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