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Descriptor English: Hylobates
Descriptor Spanish: Hylobates
Descriptor Hylobates
Entry term(s) gibón
Scope note: Género de la familia HYLOBATIDAE que consta de nueve especies. Los miembros de este género viven en bosques lluviosos del sudeste asiático. Son arbóreos y difieren de otros antropoides por la gran longitud de sus brazos y porque su cuerpo y extremidades inferiores son muy esbeltos. Su principal medio de locomoción es balanceándose de rama en rama con los brazos. Hylobates significa morador de los árboles.
Descriptor Portuguese: Hylobates
Descriptor French: Hylobates
Entry term(s): Gibbon
Gibbons
Tree number(s): B01.050.150.900.649.313.988.400.112.420.390
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006922
Scope note: A genus of the family HYLOBATIDAE consisting of nine species. The members of this genus inhabit rain forests in southeast Asia. They are arboreal and differ from other anthropoids in the great length of their arms and very slender bodies and limbs. Their major means of locomotion is by swinging from branch to branch by their arms. Hylobates means dweller in the trees.
Annotation: NIM when experimental animal; diseases: coordinate with specific disease /vet
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
Public MeSH Note: 91; was see under PONGIDAE 1981-90; was GIBBONS see under APES 1975-80
Online Note: use HYLOBATES to search GIBBONS 1975-80
History Note: 91(81); was see under PONGIDAE 1981-90; was GIBBONS see under APES 1975-80
DeCS ID: 7101
Unique ID: D006922
NLM Classification: QL 737.P943
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Date Established: 1991/01/01
Date of Entry: 1974/11/11
Revision Date: 2019/05/17
Hylobates - Preferred
Concept UI M0010799
Scope note A genus of the family HYLOBATIDAE consisting of nine species. The members of this genus inhabit rain forests in southeast Asia. They are arboreal and differ from other anthropoids in the great length of their arms and very slender bodies and limbs. Their major means of locomotion is by swinging from branch to branch by their arms. Hylobates means dweller in the trees.
Preferred term Hylobates
Entry term(s) Gibbon
Gibbons



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